Intel announces a very special Solid-State Drive with a QLC chip and a PCIe interface
It goes to the four-bit chips per cell, at least in many areas of Solid-State Drive. Intel has announced a series of SSD for Data Centers that will use their own new QLC chips, made in collaboration with Micron.
Once there were mechanical hard drives and SSD, ” those with memory chips “. Over the years, the market has been fragmented into countless strands, so much so that even manufacturers like Intel are forced to use paraphrases to place their own product line. On Twitter, Intel is repeatedly forced to juggle in articulate speeches to satisfy the curiosity of fans and experts.
The new line of SSDs is for Data-Center, but even in this case it is not enough. Data centers that focus on maximum processing speed or capacity? A middle ground, Intel says. For hyper-performing ones, there are other lines, for other capacities.
In short, a bit ironically we tried to make it clear that it is not always easy to understand what is intended for aa SSD today, especially in the professional range. Those that are announced in these days are equipped with QLC chips, but also of PCIe interface and U.2 form factor, similar to 2.5 inches but of greater thickness.
The chips used are those made in collaboration with Micron, equipped with 64 layers and able to reach the capacity of well 1Tb per single chip, or 125GB. The use of the PCIe interface suggests that the performance will still be high (more than the SATA units), but without being at the top of the PCIe category according to Twitter.
Extreme privacy on prices, as always happens with Intel. The times that leaked are always referred to the single piece sold. However, in batches of 1000, so they almost always figures very little responding to a possible purchase made by the final user in the store.
