Hi just wanted to make a small statement back to intel they claim they have the greatest ssd drive but we have been doing this much longer and have the largest varity of ssd in the market 8gb up 256gb , we have been shipping our 256gb for almost 4 months now in ide or sata commercial or industrial in mlc or slc , and just tell intel that the s in ssd means solid state drive , thank you for your time , but someone needs to stick up for us smaller companys

I took that to mean the X-axis represents a Y-value of zero. In other words, that Intel is claiming its SSDs are about ten times faster than the competition in every respect (and about a hundred times faster when it comes to random 4KB writes).

I'm not saying I believe the claims, I'm saying that's what I understand Intel to be claiming.

What exactly are those bar charts supposed to represent, there's no scale!

Is that STARSHIP Enterprise I See? By knowing original SSD have data flow from ~35 mb/sec up to 100 mb/sec & judging from how many finger widts more Magenta Line is than Cyan-LOTS, it may be above ~100 mb/sec. TOP SSD was Suspected to go to 600 mb/sec, yet that may be too Starship at this time, yet it looks like WHOPPER.
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I like how Intel takes all the credit for making and designing these NAND Flash chips when they didn't do either. They pay money to support IMFT and they get chips in return. Micron has the exact same chips and Intel claims that their own chips (the same ones Micron gets) are sooo much better than everyone else's chips. And yeah put some numbers on the scale...

What is with all these articles having their first comment looking like it came out of a LISP script? Really, it's like the manfrommars on The Register all over again. I read here more than there just so that my brain doesn't hurt AS MUCH as a result of the waste of brain cycles reading too much dribble.

Without some numbers on the charts, the difference between the bars could actually be less than a 1-2% but because of the way they displayed it, they make it seem like they have a large lead. If Intel has such a great product, they should have added the numbers on the axis of the chart. At this point, I think they are taking a page out of AMD's playbook touting how great their solution will be without actually having anything to back it up. Very misleading. The one thing I do find interesting about the numbers though is that their SSD is not a power of 2 in size.