Tuesday, February 21st 2012
Intel Readies the 313 Series SLC-Based Solid State Drives
According to a fresh report, April will not 'only' see the launch of the Ivy Bridge processor family, as Intel is also preparing the arrival of some new solid state drives specifically designed to be used in SSD/HDD storage setups (made possible by the Smart Response Technology).
The incoming SSD Caching drives are known as the 313 Series (they will replace the 311 Series aka Larson Creek), they come in 2.5-inch (7 mm thick) and mSATA form factors, and make use of 25 nm SLC (single-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips (the 311 models pack 34 nm NAND). The 313 Series SSDs have a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface and will be available in 20 GB ($99) and 24 GB ($119) capacities.
Source:
VR-Zone
The incoming SSD Caching drives are known as the 313 Series (they will replace the 311 Series aka Larson Creek), they come in 2.5-inch (7 mm thick) and mSATA form factors, and make use of 25 nm SLC (single-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips (the 311 models pack 34 nm NAND). The 313 Series SSDs have a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface and will be available in 20 GB ($99) and 24 GB ($119) capacities.
3 Comments on Intel Readies the 313 Series SLC-Based Solid State Drives
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Come on Intel, wake up. :banghead:
Thats alot more read/write cycles than a MLC based SSD.
At that price it might be worth using as a pagefile, temp file drive ie operations requiring lots of writes.
What we need is more reasonably priced SLC based SSDs. Its so hard to even find SLC based usb flash drives.