Friday, February 18th 2011
Intel 510 Series SATA 6 Gb/s SSD Slated for March 1
One of consumer SSD's pioneers, Intel, is expected to launch its next-generation 510 series solid state drive (SSD) in the 2.5-inch SATA form factor on March 1, 2011. The Intel 510 series is targeted at PC enthusiasts, workstations, and high-end notebooks. It uses the latest 6 Gb/s SATA specification, and make use of 34 nm MLC NAND flash chips. The drives can dole out transfer rates of up to 470 MB/s read, and 315 MB/s write. It delivers 20,000 IOPS random 4K read, and 5,000 IOPS random 4K write performance. At least initially, it will be available in only two capacities, 120 GB and 250 GB, priced at around US $366 and $767, respectively.
Source:
VR-Zone
34 Comments on Intel 510 Series SATA 6 Gb/s SSD Slated for March 1
No thanks. I don't care that it's SATA 6, that's pretty high, even for a SSD.
so f**k intel
Someone (Namely AMD) need to take their crown away and slap them few times so that they can wake up.
The OCZ Vertex 3 Pro is almost double the MSRP for 100GB.
Jeez. Those prices made me LOLed! haha!
I only rely on speed using normal HDDs in RAID. I own 3 in RAID 0 since 2007 and for what I payed, I'm pretty happy with them. So far zero failure. It happened to me once that the thing didn't want to boot, but it was caused by a loose sata cable.
Not that I like old hardware or I don't trust the new tecnologies... But now that you mention tape drives... :rockout:
First we have OCZ bamboozling consumers by selling 25nm Vertex 2 drives the same price as the 34nm drives, only for end users to find out that their drives have lower capacity after format and worst performance than the 34nm parts, and OCZ is laughing all the to the bank, 25nm not only is cheaper to manufacture, but is also expected to be less reliable than 34nm NAND.
Then Sandforce 2X00 drives are expected to sell at insane prices, I know all previews are from enterprise drives, but it's expected that consumer versions will retail at same or even higher prices than current SF offerings at the same capacity.
The only player left is Crucial, I read rumors that the C400 should cost around $210 for the 120GBs version for 1000 drives, but Corsair already is selling their 128GB version of the C400 at $319 at Newegg, so things are looking grim on that front as well, I guess retailers will see the lack of real price competition, and sell these drives at insane markups... :shadedshu
What happened to 25nm bringing prices down? Not only are the main players staying away from 25nm NAND for reliability and performance issues, but also, the few 25nm offerings currently available sell at the same or higher prices than 34nm parts.
This is not good indeed, I pity the fools who will preorder these drives at that price :shadedshu
And I was really looking forward to moving to SSDs this year with the rumored price drops and enhanced reliability, seems like I'll wait another year, this is madness :p