Intel’s SSD roadmap leaked, shows 600GB drives on the way

A leaked Solid State Drive road map shows Intel is mid-way of a major revamp, which proposes SSD capacity to increase manifold soon. The details on the flash memory chips send us into excitement indicating SSDs with up to 600GB capacity in the making. the roadmap states that the mainstream X25-M range of SSDs, based on the 25nm MLC NAND flash fabrication technology, would be refreshed to 160GB, 300GB and 600GB variants later this year.

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Meanwhile the value X25-V drive will be upgraded to X25-M 80GB variant from the current 40GB capacity model. According to the leak 50nm SLC flash Enterprise drives will see improvement as 25nm 'Enterprise Grade' MLC flash, which would call for a leap in storage capacity from 32GB and 64GB to 100GB, 200GB and 400GB size Enterprise drives. These revamp details of the SSD from Intel would certainly bring about a change in the SSD market, but in what way and when remains to be seen.

Via: PCAuthority/TheRegister