Last week Intel announced its own SSD (solid state drive) based on NAND flash memory with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive family to compete with similar products. As the cost for NAND memory is rapidly going down the future belongs to this kind of hard drives as they offer both higher data speeds with considerably lower power requirements.

Intel’s product will deliver read speeds of 28 MB/s (megabytes per second) and write speeds of 20 MB/s leading to better performance due to lower access time for files on the hard drive. Another advantage Intel Z-U130 has over the competition is the MTBF (mean time between failure), meaning the average time a hard drive will end working which is supposed to be around 5 million hours.

Available in 4 flavors (1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB) the Intel Z-U130 has no release date yet and no price has been communicated by Intel either.

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