Fastest (SSD) Solid State Drive

Solid State Drives are clearly leading the speedway this year with their expanding capacities and lightning fast read and write speeds. The drive that is clearly ahead of the pack in regards to speed is the Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive.

SSD Vs. HDD

One of the fastest non-solid state drives, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 w16 MB Cache, is clearly obliterated by the Intel X25-E. The read throughput of the Seagate 7200.12 pushes the limits with 104.37 MB/s (megabytes a second). In comparison the Intel X25-E screams ahead at 227.80 MB/s.

As of now, hard drives are the biggest bottleneck in computing today, so switching to a ssd (solid state drive) will be the single best upgrade you can make to your PC or Laptop.

Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive

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Tech Specs:

Capacity – 32GB and 64GB
Interface – SATA 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s
Form factor – 2.5″ by 7mm industry standard hard drive form factor
NAND Flash components – IntelÂ® Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash Memory
10 Parallel Channel Architecture with 50nm SLC ONFI 1.0 NAND
Bandwidth – Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/s
Sustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s
Read latency – 75 microseconds
I/O Per Second (IOPS) – Random 4KB Reads: >35,000 IOPS
Random 4KB Writes: >3,300 IOPS
Power consumption – Active: 2.4W Typical (server workloadÂ¹)
Idle (DIPM): 0.06 W Typical