WD Offers New High Speed Solid State Drives

WD has announced that the company is shipping its new high performance WD SiliconDrive N1x 2.5-inch solid state drive (SSD) family. The new SSDs feature fast read/ write speeds in high capacities and are designed for embedded system OEM applications that require superior performance, high reliability and long product life.

The single-level cell (SLC)-based WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs are suitable for a wide range of embedded system OEM applications in growing markets such as automotive and transportation, data centres, communications infrastructure, video surveillance and industrial automation. The new WD SiliconDrive N1x family of products complements the multi-level cell (MLC)-based WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs, which offer a cost-effective alternative for less-demanding OEM applications while providing high read/write speeds and high random write IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) performance.

WD SiliconDrive N1x SSD products feature a native SATA 3.0 gigabits per second (Gb/s) interface with target read speeds up to 240 megabytes per second (MB/s) and write transfer rates up to 140 MB/s in capacities up to 128 gigabytes (GB). The drives also feature WD’s Speed Assurance technology for consistent read/ write performance.

“The WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs are the newest addition to our SiliconDrive product family. SiliconDrive SSDs have consistently met critical OEM application requirements for high reliability, high performance and long product deployment cycles,” said Michael Hajeck, SVP and General Manager of WD’s solid state storage business unit. “Satisfying the challenging storage demands for a wide variety of OEM applications, WD has designed the WD SiliconDrive N1x and WD SiliconEdge Blue product families to facilitate SSD technology adoption in a multitude of existing and expanding new markets that can benefit from advanced storage solutions.”

The WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs feature WD technologies combined with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and Windows 7 TRIM command support for high data integrity, long product life and sustained performance levels throughout the drive’s service life.

The WD SiliconDrive N1x SSD comes with a five-year limited warranty.