Intel’s PCI-E 910-Series SSD with 400GB and 800GB Storage Capacity

Historically, Intel stuck to Serial ATA based SSDs but now they are concentrating more on PCI-Express SSD. Today, they are no new name in the market of enterprise-grade Solid State Drives (SSDs). The maximum SSDs that you might have seen in the market must have been around 250GB however, Intel has made a breakthrough. It has now brought the PCI-E 910-Series SSDs with 400GB and 800GB storage capacities.

The 910 Series is built on a half-length, half-height PCI Express x8 card. Although the card fits into a single slot, it is capable of packing multiple circuit boards. The Intel SSD 910 consists of multiple logical SSDs. This series comes with two different capacities- “400GB” and” 800GB”. Some tit bits of these two capacities are given below:

Points	400GB	800GB
NAND controllers	2	4
Max sequential Read	1GB/s	2GB/s
Max sequential Write	0.75GB/s	1GB/s
Lifetime edurance	7 petabytes	14 petabytes
Max random Read	90k IOps	180k IOps
Max random Write	38k IOps	75k IOps
Warranty	5 years	5 years
Weight	125 gram	190 gram

Pros

• Sequential read and write speed is excellent.
• More power efficient and faster than hard drives.
• By using its firmware, it reduces data errors.
• Data throughput can be improved.

Cons

• It is much more expensive.
• Storage capacity is low.

Intel’s PCI-E 910-Series SSD Tech Specs

Compatibility

• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1/SP2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
• Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, 5.6, 6.1

Intel PCI-E 910-Series SSD Price

The price of Intel’s PCI-E 910-Series SSD for 400 GB capacity is $1,929 and for 800 GB it is $3859.

Useful Links

For more details click the official Intel website.