Intel Unveils SSD 5 Series Mainstream Solid State Drives

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Intel Unveils SSD 5 Series Mainstream Solid State Drives

Intel unveiled the SSD 5 series (SSD 540s) of mainstream solid-state drives. The SSD 5 Series is part of Intel's new nomenclature for its consumer SSD lineup. The SSD 7 Series leads the pack with the highest performance, leveraging exotic interfaces such as M.2 PCIe, U.2, or PCIe add-on card, and NVMe protocol; the SSD 5 Pro series retains conventional 2.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s and M.2 SATA interfaces, but with the fastest MLC NAND flash memory. The SSD 5 series, however, offers TLC NAND flash memory, and is designed to be cost-effective.

The SSD 5 series comes in capacities of 180 GB, 240 GB, 360 GB, 480 GB, and 1 TB, and in two form-factors - 7 mm-thick 2.5-inch, and 80 mm M.2 with SATA 6 Gb/s interface. Transfer rates vary by model, but you're looking at read speeds of up to 560 MB/s, with write speeds of up to 480 MB/s. The SSD 5 Series is perhaps the only TLC NAND flash SSD in the market to ship with a 5-year warranty.

 

[watzup_ken]

Another TLC drive. Giving it a pass if its just planar TLC NAND SSD.

 

[wwenze]

Well it's Intel... I would take that over Samsung if same price.

But TLC...? What chips are they getting from who?

 

[ykgoh]

Well it's Intel... I would take that over Samsung if same price.

But TLC...? What chips are they getting from who?

Intel has announced the SSD 540s and SSD Pro 5400s drives, two new SATA 6Gbps products for consumers and businesses, both of which are based on 16nm TLC – or three-bit per cell – NAND flash from SK Hynix.

The drives employ Silicon Motion’s new SM2256 controller designed specifically for TLC flash, effectively replacing the aging SandForce SF-2281 controller found on previous generation drives.

Intel unveils first ever TLC-based SSDs with the SSD 540s and SSD Pro 5400s drives - 4 Apr 2016