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Animation: Intel Solid State Drives - Better by Design

Sales summary

• Solid State Drives are an alternative to spindle based drives.  At their hearts are NAND flash memory.  A technology that has matured to the point where it can now compete in performance and reliability with spindle based storage.  Products are available in standard hard drive form factors and utilize existing hard drive controllers.

Intel X-25M

• 80 GB
• SATA-300, SAS (soon)
• 2.5" form factor

• Solid State Drives use less power then traditional hard drives

• Solid State Drives are more rugged then traditional hard drives

• Solid State Drives out perform traditional hard drives

Axiom (many models)

• 8 - 256 GB
• SATA-150 and PATA
• 2.5" form factor

Ask your customers

If they are looking to:

• provide the fastest storage solution for notebooks, servers, or desktops.

• build a rugged PC or notebook

• reduce power consumption in a notebook or SAN

• reduce noise levels

Imation

• 16 - 128GB
• SATA-150/300
• 2.5" / 3.5" form factors

Who wants this?

Customers who mention:

• Building Notebooks

• Enterprise Storage

• Early adopters / Gaming PCs

OEMs that offer SSD options
 

• Acer
• Apple
• Asus
• Fujitsu
• HP
• IBM

• Lenovo
• Motion Computing
• OQO
• Panasonic
• Sony
• Toshiba

What  Do I Sell?

• Mainstream drives with SATA interfaces

• Enterprise drives with SAS interfaces

Learn more

• spindle based hard drive - a storage device utilizing one or more spinning disks coated in a magnetic media used to store data bits. a.k.a. a standard hard drive
• Wikipedia - SSD
• Intel - SSD
• Imation - SSD