Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms. The company will use it as low-power storage alternatives for PCs, routers, servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs, point of sale terminals, gaming and industrial applications.

The Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is the company’s first solution in the Intel Value Solid State Drive family that will offer different industry standard interfaces and densities. The product comes in 1, 2, 4 and 8GB densities. Its read speed is 28 MB per second and write speed, 20 MB per second.

Intel’s Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is expected to meet an average mean time between failure (MTBF) specification of five million hours. The product can be integrated into original design manufacturers’ designs because of its USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant interfaces, 2×5 USB connector and standard single-level cell NAND in thin small outline package (TSOP) devices. The company is also considering next-generation products that could incorporate cost-effective multi-level cell (MLC) technology.