Eurocom Adds Intel 520 SSDs

Eurocom Corporation announces support for Intel Corp.‘s new 520 Series of SSDss inside their mobile workstations and mobile server solutions.

The addition of the Intel 520 series of SSD’s to Eurocom’s list of storage drives gives customers a greater choice when customizing their purpose built systems. Customers have achoices between HDDs, SSDs and hybrid drives.

Eurocom Mobile Workstations are built to offer performance, long lifespan and upgradeability of the processor, memory, storage, operating system and VGA technology, and are designed with RAID-0/1/5/10 support to dual GPU support.

RAID is a technology that provides increased data storage abilities through redundancy. Multiple drives are arranged in units where data are distributed across the drives in different RAID levels. The ultimate goal of RAIDing ones drives is to provide data reliability and backup as well as read/write performance. Different levels of RAID correspond with varying levels of performance and redundancy.

Intel Solid-State Drive 520 series accelerates SATA throughput by utilizing 6Gb SATA 6 performance and NAND-based SSD technology. It supports data transfers up to 550MB/s, with sequential write times up to 520MB/s.

Intel Solid State Drive 520 series consists of 60GB, 120GB, 180GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities.

Eurocom’s usage of NAND based SSD technology and SATA 6Gb drives allow for quick system responsiveness, boot times, application launches, file loads, sleep recovery and benchmarks.

The 520 drives make use of the Sandforce SF-2281 controller.

Intel also offers a 5-year warranty on all 520 series drives.

"The Intel 520 series SSDs gives Eurocom clients looking for the most powerful mobile workstations on the market a super fast storage option, that is rugged, efficient and performance oriented," explains Eurocom President Mark Bialic.

Intel 520 series SSDs support AES 256-bit encryption, an industry standard in data security, providing a hardware-based mechanism for encryption and decryption of user data. End-to-end data protection helps protect data from being corrupted across the data path by using cyclic redundancy check (CRC), parity, and ECC checks in the data path from the host interface to the NAND, and back.

Eurocom Storage Drive Options

80GB MLC SSD; Intel 310 series; SATA-300
250GB; G-Force Protection; SATA-300 NCQ; 7,200rpm; 16MB cache
320GB; SATA-300; 7,200rpm; 16MB cache; Seagate
500GB; G-Force Protection; SATA-300 NCQ; 7,200rpm; 16MB cache
750GB; SSHD; Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid; 8GB SLC NAND Flash
750GB 5400rpm SATA-300; 16MB cache
750GB; 7200rpm; 16MB cache; Seagate Momentus
500GB; Solid State Hybrid Drive; Seagate Momentus XT; 32MB cache/4GB SLC Flash
640GB; 5400rpm; 3Gb/s; 8MB cache; WD Scorpio Blue
256GB SSD MLC; SATA-600; Marvell controller; Crucial/Micron RealSSD C300
128GB MLC SSD; Micron C300 RealSSD; SATA-600
120GB MLC SSD; Intel 510 series; SATA-600
120GB MLC SSD; Intel 320 series; SATA-300
250GB MLC SSD; Intel 510; SATA-600; Marvell 9174 controller
600GB SSD MLC; Intel 320 series; SATA-300
160GB MLC SSD; Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm; SSDSA2MH160G2C1
512GB SSD MLC; Micron/Crucial M4
240GB MLC Solid State Drive; Solidata X8; SandForce-1200
1TB; 5400rpm; 8MB cache; WD Scorpio Blue

Intel SSD 510 Series Specs

Capacity: 60GB, 120GB, 180GB, 240GB and 480GB
Components: Intel 25nm NAND Flash Memory MLC
Form Factor: 2.5"
Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
Sustained sequential read: up to 550 MB/s
Sustained sequential write: up to 520MB/s
Read and Write IOPS: Random 4KB reads: up to 50 ,000 IOPS; Random 4KN writes: up to 80,000 IOPS
AES 256-bit Encryption
Power Consumption (TYP): Active 850 mW; Idle: 600 mW
Operating Voltage: Min 4.75 V; Max 5.25 V
MTBF: 1,200,000 hours
Minimum Useful Life/Endurance Rating: 5 years

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