nsane.forums Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 New models promise faster data transfers Intel has released a solid state hard drive (SSD) which the company says will double throughput speeds. The company said that its SSD 510 series drives would reach read speeds of up to 500 MB/s and write speeds as high as 315 MB/s, doubling read speeds and tripling write speeds over previous models. Designed for use with the improved SATA interface on Intel's new Core platform, the 510 series would support SATA speeds of 6 Gbit/s, double that of Intel's previous SSD line. In achieving such speeds, Intel said that the SSD hard drives can perform up to 50 per cent faster than 10,000 RPM platter-based hard drives. While sold-state drives have yet to penetrate a large portion of either the enterprise or consumer PC space, SSDs have become increasingly popular as an option for higher-end systems. Though more expensive to produce, SSDs generally offer faster performance and better energy efficiency than traditional platter-based storage drives. Intel said that the 510 series will target traditional high-performance SSD markets such as media-creation systems, compute-intensive workstations and high-end gaming PCs. "The Intel SSD 510 Series helps round out our SSD product line and was specifically designed for applications that require high sequential media transfers," said Intel NAND solutions director of marketing Pete Hazen. "Whether it's a gamer wanting impeccable visual performance and faster game loading, or a performance-intensive workstation user, the new 6Gbit/s SATA SSD from Intel is not only significantly faster than the top 10,000 RPM gaming HDD, it's also faster than two RAIDed gaming HDDs." Intel is offering the SSD 510 series to system vendors and retailers in two sizes. The 250 GB drive will cost $584, while the 120 GB model will cost $284. Both models will ship in quantities of 1,000. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 1, 2011 Administrator Share Posted March 1, 2011 Nice. :)If only they were cheaper or I could afford them. :dreams: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 there is no reason for the cost to be this high. they need to stop milking it and make the 1 tb drives at the same cost. chips are cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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