Intel announces SSD series Pro 2500 with hardware encryption

Intel has announced a new Solid State Drive Series (SSD) for enterprise use. The product family per 2500 will be characterized by a typical SATA SSDs performance at low operating costs and built-in security and remote functions.

This includes a hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption and support for Microsoft’s eDrive and TCG / Opal 2.0. Intel vPro technology and the included Intel SSD Pro Administrator Tool for example, allow the monitoring of the drive state, the tracking data and the enforcement of privacy Policies & from afar.

The new enterprise SSDs are 2.5-inch models and frameless M.2 format available. They use a 6-GBit/s-SATA-Schnittstelle and comparatively cheap MLC memory with 20 nm feature size. They are over the entire life cycle can write 450 TB of data (Total Bytes Written TBW) before memory cells threatens to fail. The mean time between failures (Mean Time Between Failures, MTBF) is the data sheet 1.2 million hours, the oscillation strength in the Operating 2.17 G.

Regardless of the form factor drives reach the manufacturer sequential read speeds of up to 540 MB / s and a write speed of up to 490 MB/s The performance is Intel when reading and writing 4K blocks with up to 48,000 respectively 80,000 input commands per second (IOPS) on. The values vary depending on memory size.

The average energy consumption of the 2.5-inch version is a maximum of 165 mW in operation and 55 mW at idle. The only 3.6 mm thick and a maximum of 10 grams heavy M.2 models come in operation with 140 mW of. The 2.5-inch drives have a height of 7 mm and a weight of up to 78 grams.

Intel offers the SSD per 2500 in the form factor of 2.5 inches in capacities of 120, 180, 240, 360 and 480 GB. The plug-in module versions (in 60 – or 80-mm format), there are only 180, 240 and 360 GB. Prices range from $ 95 for the 120-gigabyte version to $ 305 for the 480-gigabyte version. Unlike Intel’s consumer SSDs applies to the Enterprise models have a warranty period of five instead of three years.

Intel announces SSD series Pro 2500 with hardware encryption