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Intel Stomps Into Flash Memory

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hoping-for-solid-returns dept.

jcatcw writes "Intel's first NAND flash memory product, the Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, is a challenge to other hardware vendors. Intel claims read rates of 28 MB/sec, write speeds of 20 MB/sec., and capacity of 1GB to 8GB, which is much smaller than products from SanDisk. 'But Intel also touts extreme reliability numbers, saying the Z-U130 has an average mean time between failure of 5 million hours compared with SanDisk, which touts an MTBF of 2 million hours.'"

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  1. Re:WTF? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "2,000,000 hours = 228 years and 4 months or so. Who the hell cares if you make it to 5,000,000?"

    Mean time between failures is not a hard perdiction of when things will break. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBF

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