Intel starts shipping X25-E enterprise-class solid-state drives

Intel today announced that it has started shipping its highest-performing solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at server, workstation and storage systems. Unlike mechanical drives, the SSDs contain no moving parts and instead feature 50nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory technology. According to Intel, the Intel X25-E increases system performance by 100 times over hard disk drives as measured in Input/Output Per Second (IOPS).