Intel® High-Performance SATA Solid-State Drives and Caching

Intel® X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives

Overview

High-Performance Storage for Notebook and Desktop PCs
The Intel® X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD) brings a new level of performance and reliability to laptop and desktop PC storage.

Wait less. Do more.
Why wait for a traditional hard disk drive to spin up? Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness. And for laptop PCs, the lower power needs of Intel SSDs translate to longer battery life and lighter notebooks. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.

Better by design
Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, Intel Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives are designed to deliver outstanding performance, featuring the latest-generation native SATA interface with an advanced architecture employing 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with multi-level cell NAND flash memory. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, Intel Mainstream SATA 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 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.

Two options. No worries.
Intel® Mainstream Solid-State Drives are available in either 2.5in (Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) or 1.8in (Intel® X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive) standard hard drive form factors. And all Intel Mainstream SSDs are tested and validated on the latest Intel-based mobile and desktop platforms for your peace of mind.















Product information
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Technical specifications

Model Name
Intel® X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive
Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive

Capacity
80GB and 160GB

NAND Flash Components
Intel® Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory10 Channel Parallel Architecture with 50nm MLC ONFI 1.0 NAND

Bandwidth
Up to 250MB/s Read SpeedsUp to 70MB/s Write Speeds

Read Latency
85 microseconds

Interface
SATA 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s

Form factor
X18-M: Industry Standard Hard Drive Form Factor
80GB drive: 1.8in by 5.0mm
160GB drive: 1.8in by 8.0mm

X25-M: Industry Standard Hard Drive Form Factor
80GB drive: 2.5in by 7mm and 2.5in by 9.5mm options
160GB drive: 2.5in by 7mm and 2.5in by 9.5mm options

X25-M: 2.5in Industry Standard Hard Drive Form Factor

Compatibility
SATA Revision 2.6 Compliant. Compatible with SATA 3.0 Gb/s with Native Command Queuing and SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface rates

Life expectancy
1.2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)

Power consumption
Active: 150mW Typical (PC workload¹)Idle (DIPM): 0.06W Typical

Operating shock
1,000G / 0.5ms

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 (S.M.A.R.T.) commands plus additional SSD monitoring