Phys.org August 9, 2018
Intel’s newest solid-state drive, the Intel SSD DC P4500, is about the size of a 12-inch ruler and can store 32 terabytes. It is built on Intel 3-D NAND technology, which stacks memory cells atop each other in multiple extremely thin layers, instead of just one. Memory cells in the P4500 are stacked 64 layers deep. In data centers, the no-moving-parts ruler-shaped SSDs can be lined up 32 side-by-side, to hold up to a petabyte in a single server slot. Compared with a traditional SSD, the “ruler” requires half the airflow to keep cool. And compared with hard disk storage, the new 3-D NAND SSD sips one-tenth the power and requires just one-twentieth the space… read more.
The ruler-shaped Intel SSD DC P4500 can hold up to 32 terabytes. It draws just one-tenth the power of a traditional spinning hard drive. Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation