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Intel Corporation, a leading producer of solid state drives (SSDs) renowned for their reliability, is announcing the expansion of its data center family of SATA 6GB/s solid state drives to include the Intel SSD DC S3710 and the Intel SSD DC S3610. Both of these new drives offer increased write performance for faster processing of write data in data center environments, and at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
The Intel SSD DC S3710 series attains up to a 25% increase in write performance as compared to their previous generation of data center SSDs, as well as high endurance and strong data protection. The resultant increased write speeds come at a lower total cost of ownership for usage scenarios such as large scale virtualization, high data rate analytics, high performance computing and operational databases.
The Intel SSD DC S3610 series is a mid-level SSD that offers up to twice the write performance of entry level data center SSDs, while still offering high endurance and strong data protection. Utilizing the DC S3610 series provides IT managers with an ideal balance of improved performance, endurance and low cost for workloads that include virtualization, e-commerce, analytical and operational databases, and cloud infrastructures.
The DC S3710 series are 2.5” form factor SATA 6Gb/s SSDs that are being offered in capacities of 200GB, 400GB, 800GB and 1.2TB. Intel is utilizing 20nm MLC NAND with High Endurance Technology to achieve sustained sequential reads of (up to) 550 MB/s for all capacities. Sequential write speeds vary by capacity, with the 200GB at (up to) 300MB/s, the 400GB at (up to) 470MB/s, the 800GB at (up to) 460MB/s and the 1.2TB at (up to) 520MB/s. Random 4K reads come in at (up to) 85,000 IOPS for all capacities. Again, random 4K write speeds vary by capacity, with the 200GB and 400GB attaining (up to) 43,000 IOPS, the 800GB attaining (up to) 39,000 IOPS and the 1.2TB attaining (up to) 45,000 IOPS.
Endurance rating for the DC S3710 is stated as up to 10 Drive Writes per Day (DWPD), and up to 24.3 Petabytes written. Mean time between failures (MTBF) is stated as 2,000,000 hours. S.M.A.R.T. drive health and monitoring attributes are also supported, as well as AES 256-bit encryption, enhanced power loss protection and thermal monitoring. Intel is backing the DC S3710 series of data center SSDs with a five-year warranty.
The DC S3610 series are 2.5” form factor SATA 6Gb/s SSDs that are being offered in capacities of 200GB, 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 1.2TB and 1.6TB. Intel utilizes the same 20nm MLC NAND with High Endurance Technology to achieve sustained sequential read speeds of (up to) 550MB/s for the 200GB, 400GB and 480GB versions. The 1.2TB version is rated for (up to) 500MB/s, with the 800GB and 1.6TB versions coming in at (up to) 540 MB/s. Sequential write speeds vary by capacity also, with the 200GB model at (up to) 230MB/s, the 400GB at (up to) 400MB/s, the 480GB at (up to) 440MB/s, the 800GB at (up to) 520MB/s, the 1.2TB and 1.6TB at (up to) 500MB/s.
Random 4K read speeds are identical for all capacities at (up to) 84,000 IOPS. Random 4K write speeds vary by capacity, with the 200GB model at (up to) 12,000 IOPS, the 400GB model at (up to) 25,000 IOPS, the 480GB-800GB-1.2TB all at (up to) 28,000 IOPS and the 1.6TB model at (up to) 27,000 IOPS. Endurance rating for the DC S3610 series is stated as up to 3 Drive Writes per Day (DWPD), and up to 10.7 Petabytes written. Mean time between failures (MTBF) is stated as 2,000,000 hours. S.M.A.R.T. drive health and monitoring attributes are also supported, as well as AES 256-bit encryption, enhanced power loss protection and thermal monitoring. Intel is backing the DC S3610 series with a five-year warranty.
All of the above models are currently available from Intel. Some “TBD” listings in the product specification sheets may indicate that 1.8” form factor versions of the DC S3610 series are also planned. You can view the product page for the Intel SSD DC S3710 series here; and the DC S3610 series here.
20NM class MLC NAND and 1.6 TB capacity in 2.5″ form factor is nice. I can not see any description about the size. 7 mm or 9.5 mm? There are some samples of 2 TB 2.5″ SSDs on the market. And according to Sandisk it is possibe to produce 4 TB 2.5″ SSD. Only obstacle is Controller. Higher capacities need more powerful controllers. I am sure thanks to new IMTF 16NM class or Toshiba 15 NM class NAND it will be possible to produce 6 – 8 TB 2.5″ SSD drives in 9.5 mm or even in 7mm. It will not matter if they are 15mm. In any case SSD drives will be much better than the HDD drives. A 2.5″ HDD drive can store up to 4 platter maximum and they will reach up to 3 TB max (750 GB per platter). And this drive will be 15mm wide.
https://www.techpowerup.com/208696/toshiba-launches-industrys-largest-capacity-3tb-2-5-inch-hdd.html
On the other hand a 3.5″ HDD drive can store up 8 TB.
https://www.seagate.com/tr/tr/about/newsroom/press-releases/Seagate-ships-worlds-first-8TB-hard-drives-pr-master/
It is clear that if you want to produce a 3.5″ SSD drive with 15NM Toshiba MLC NAND and if the wideness is not matter then it is possible to produce up 20TB drives may be more.
I am sorry Less. I am not an IT expert. Please correct me here if I am wrong. I only make a guess.
So I want to say that “SSD drives can store more and more data than the HDD drives in any form factor (2.5″ or 3.5”). And SSD drives can be thinner than HDD Drives in any form factors. And SSD drives can be produced as MSATA or M2 form factor but they are imoossible for the HDD drives. It is also possible to produce stamp size 256 GB incredible fast PCIe SSD drives. https://www.techpowerup.com/208695/toshiba-to-showcase-worlds-first-pci-express-single-package-ssd.html
On the other hand SSD drives store the data on the fly. That means you will not wait seconds to be able to reach your files in your drives. Even the fastest HDD Drive can not be as fast ass the slowest SSD drive. Even the the fastest HDD drives (SAS 12 GB, 15.500 rpm…) can not reach the speeds of a simple SATA III SSD drive. Not only SATA III but also SATA II SSD drives have more IOPS rates than any fastest HDD Drives.
SSD means “more and more capacity, more and more speed, more and more convenient form factors and sizes, more and more reliability, more and more silence, more and more portability, more and more coolness, more and more power efficiency and more….”
I bought my SSD drive approximately three years ago and HDD drives are over for me after that. Internal or external.
There are many SSD alternatives on the market to store your data or to use as your main drive.
It is possible to use a CF card or SD card or micro SD card or Storage Expansion Card to store your data in your lapto/PC.
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Whenever possible, for those seeking additional info or specs, we try to include links to the product page(s) for the drive that is the topic of the article. The ‘z’ height of the 2.5″ DC S3610 1.2TB and 1.6TB is 7mm.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-dc-s3610-brief.html
Scroll down to the “technical specifications” section for that and more good info about the drive(s).