Intel today made available the Intel SSD DC S3510 Series to meet the demands for high-performance data stores in the data center. The DC S3510 Series expands the Intel SSD Data Center Family, which also includes the S3710 and the S3610 series. It is suited for read-intensive or virtualized applications in a cloud or data center environment, such as web servers, operational databases and analytics.

The new 2,5" SSD series is available in 80, 120, 240, 480, 800GB and 1.2, 1.6TB capacities. It is based on 16nm NAND Multi-Level Cell (MLC) memory with Standard Endurance echnology (SET). That's a main upgrade compared to the S3710 and the S3610 series, which are based on 20nm NAND MLC memory. The drive has 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and its lifetime endurance is up to .3 Drive Writes per Day, up to 880 TBW.

Sustained sequential reads / writes quoted by Intel are up to to 500 / 460 MB/sec, and and 4K random read/write input/output operations per second (IOPs) up to 68,000/20,000.

Applications benefit from 55 μs typical latency with max read latencies of 500 μs 99.9 percent of the time.

Intel and VMware developed the first 32-node all-flash Virtual SAN with NVM Express technology to show how enterprise customers can deploy this technology.