Intel X25-E Extreme Reference guide

Product Brief
Intel® High-Performance SATA Solid-State Drive Product Line
NAND Storage Solutions from Intel
Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives
Extreme Performance and Reliability for Servers, Storage, and Workstations
The Intel® Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) offers outstanding performance and reliability for
servers, storage, and high-end workstations.
Reduce Your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Enterprise applications place a premium on performance, reliability, power consumption, and space. Unlike traditional
hard disk drives, Intel® Solid-State Drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool storage solution that also offers
signicantly higher performance than traditional server drives. Imagine replacing up to 50 high-RPM hard disk drives
with one Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive in your servers—handling the same server workload in less space,
with no cooling requirements and lower power consumption. That space and power savings, for the same server workload,
will translate into a tangible reduction in your TCO.
Better by Design
Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, the Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive is designed
to deliver outstanding performance and reliability, featuring the latest generation native SATA interface with an advanced
architecture employing 10 parallel NAND Flash channels equipped with single-level cell NAND Flash memory for even
greater overall performance and reliability. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations,
these Intel SSDs deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market
today—and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These Intel drives also feature low write amplification
and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better—they last longer.

Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive
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Technical Specications
Model Name Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive
Capacity 32 GB and 64 GB
NAND Flash Components Intel® Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash Memory
10 Parallel Channel Architecture with 50nm SLC ONFI 1.0 NAND
Bandwidth Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/s
Sustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s
Read Latency 75 microseconds
I/O Per Second (IOPS) Random 4 KB reads: >35,000 IOPS
Random 4 KB writes: >3,300 IOPS
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s
Form Factor 2.5¨ industry standard hard drive form factor
Compatibility SATA revision 2.6 compliant. Compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s with
Native Command Queuing and SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface rates
Life Expectancy 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
Power Consumption Active: 2.4 W typical (server workload1)
Idle (DIPM): 0.06 W typical
Operating Shock 1,000 G/0.5 ms
Voltage 5V SATA supply rail
Operating Temperature 0°C to +70°C
RoHS Compliance Meets the requirements of EU RoHS Compliance Directives
Product Health Monitoring Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
commands, plus additional SSD monitoring
Validated and Tested by Intel, on Intel
All Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives are tested and validated on the latest Intel-based server and worksta-
tion platforms, for your peace of mind.