Intel intros NAND flash drives

The Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive comes in 1 Gigabyte (GB), 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities and claims read times of 28MB per second and write speeds of 20MB per second.

The drives, Intel reckons offer a faster storage alternative that "speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries".

The firm reckons the drives will be used in a variety of boxes, such as servers, emerging market notebooks, low-cost PCs, routers and point of sale terminals.

The drives use USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant interfaces, 2x5 USB connector and standard single-level cell NAND in thin small outline package (TSOP) devices. µ