Intel (INTC) unleashed their Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series and their newest solid-state drive (SSD) for cloud computing and data centers. Intel claim their latest SSD drives can take the place of traditional hard disk drives (HDD) especially because they are designed to handle read-intensive applications.

The SSD Drive from the company is equipped to manage cloud computing, web hosting and data center virtualization. Data centers can save a lot of money if they switch to an all-SSD storage framework instead of their HDDs.

"The Intel SSD DC S3500 Series breaks through barriers - like the need for high throughput/low latency storage with a low total cost of ownership - to deliver the storage solution that meets the needs of the cloud, and its demand for storage, which has exploded in recent years," Intel's corporate vice president and general manager for the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group Rob Cooke explained

"Intel's data center family of SSDs helps make cloud computing faster and more reliable, enabling more transactions and richer experiences." He added.

The new drive is capable of 500 MB per second for sequential reads and 450 MB per second for sequential write speeds. Intel combined SATA 6 GB per second interface support and 20nm Intel NAND Flash Memory technology to make the high performing drive. The company also focused on a strict input/output per second as well as low maximum latencies.

The drive can do a random read as fast as 75,000 input-output operations per second. Intel's newest SSD is available in several types starting from 80 gigabyte (GB) to 800GB. This also comes with a 2.5 and 1.8 inch form factors.

"Intel SSDs have enabled our chip designers to gain up to 27 percent performance throughput in our massive design distributed computing environment," Intel's Chief Information Office Kim Stevenson explained.

"In fact, we are increasing our deployment of Intel SSDs in our data centers from 10,000 units to 40,000 by the end of this year to enable our global design team to help bring products to market faster." He added.