For those of you curious about the new Intel Solid State Drives, you can now check out their product webpages. There are two for the PATA SSDs – the Intel Z-P230 and the Intel Z-P140. Specs are broken down as follows:

z-p230 Intel Z-P230 PATA Solid State Drive:

  • Available in 4 and 8GB with 16GB coming in Q4
  • Standard 40 pin ZIF PATA (IDE) interface
  • Measures 38 x 54 x 4 mm which is 1/4 the volume of a standard 1.8 inch notebook hard drive
  • Weighs only 10 grams
  • 1.65 mW idle power draw and 314 mW typical operating power draw

 

Z-P140 Intel Z-P140 PATA Solid State Drive:

  • Available in 2, 4, 8, and 16GB
  • Parallel ATA interface
  • Measures 12 x 18 x 1.8mm and weighs 0.6 grams
  • 1.1mW idle power with typical operating consumption at 315mW
  • 40MB/s read speed and 30MB/s write speed

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