Return of the King ! Intel posted strong sturdy SSDs

With high quality, high performance , Intel SSDs are a lot of players once the first choice, but this year the focus of Intel 's solid state storage market is completely biased enterprise , consumer goods , while out of the old fields could barely see the new born.

   Today, this situation has finally broken , Intel officially released the high-end gamers, workstation users of the new solid-state drive - "SSD 730".

 In fact, based on solid state drive SSD 730 data center platform DC S3500/S3700, but also since its SSD 320 , Intel 's first completely self-designed , but it is not a simple enterprise-class products changed names , but regardless of the host controller or flash are increase the operating frequency to ensure better performance and enterprise-class inherits a lot of technical features .
Intel even in the hard surface has been drawn to represent the high-end high-performance Skulltrail skull logo , highlighting its status .
SSD 730 is a standard 2.5 -inch form factor specifications, thickness 7 mm , but this is the only version without mSATA . Master controller is Intel 's third-generation products that support SATA 6Gbps, eight-channel , operating frequency 600MHz ( on S3500/S3700 only 400MHz).
Flash particle is Intel 20nm MLC, but the capacity is only 240GB, 480GB in two versions, choose little room . The cache is two 256MB DDR3-1600.

   Dismantling found , 480GB models use a 16 32GB flash memory, every single package four Die, which can be used as a redundancy to protect blocks and Die -level failure.
Flash interface or 64Gb ONFI 2.1, but the flash frequency from 83MHz upgrade to 100MHz, so each channel bandwidth up to 200MB / s, eight channel is 1.6GB / s, but the bottleneck or SATA 6Gbps, want to play the extreme can double-disc set up RAID0.

 Single disc , double disc read and write performance RAID0 mode are as follows :
240GB:
Sustained Read : 550MB / s, 1020MB / sSustained Write : 270MB / s, 530MB / sRandom Read : 86000 IOPS, 136000 IOPSRandom Write : 56000 IOPS, 136000 IOPS
480GB:
Sustained Read : 550MB / s, 1020MB / sSustained Write : 470MB / s, 910MB / sRandom Read : 89000 IOPS, 168000 IOPSRandom Write : 74000 IOPS, 145000 IOPS
Such a high level of performance has been under the SATA 6Gbps , RAID0 mode is almost doubled.
It is particularly worth mentioning is that , SSD 730 uses the same reliability and S3700 Flash MLC-HET, durability rating is based on JEDEC to develop enterprise-class load , declaring support for a comprehensive written daily 50GB, 70GB , and the rebirth of the maximum write intake 91TB, 128TB, while the previous SSD 530 only up to 36.5TB.

 MTBF of 1.2 million hours . Standby power consumption 1.5W, load 3.8W, 5.5W.AES-256 encryption technology has been deleted , but rare in the consumer support power-down protection products, more practical , to provide support for the two 3.5V 47 microfarads capacitance.