Since last year, almost all the major brands have presented solid-state disk memory NAND TLC - with three bit cell. Prior to this, the first and main supplier of SSD on three bit cell was only Samsung company . In April, according to sources, the cohort of SSD vendors to NAND TLC also join Intel company .
SSD Intel 540 Series is based on 16-nm NAND TLC companies ... SK Hynix.
As SSD Intel 540 Series controller uses a budget solution SM2256 from Silicon Motion company. This controller is optimized for the 16-nm planar NAND TLC. Such a controller, for example, mounted on the SSD Micron Crucial BX200 16 nm NAND TLC. Controller features - a 560 MB / s reading speed and 480 MB / s write speed For random IOPS value is equal to 78,000 read operations and 85 000 operations for recording. Interface drives - SATA 6 Gb / s. Form Factor - a 2.5-inch, and M.2. The range of capacities - from 120 GB to 1 TB. Start of new products sales , as stated in the title of this article, April month .