Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Intel presents its new SSD

Intel has introduced its new range of Solid State Drives (SSD) that show a slight but not surprising improvement over previous versions, this is the new Intel SSD 510 Series. The Intel SSD 510 Series improve some aspects, such as move from 50 nanometers to 34, far distant from the 25 nm has been rumored to over 2010 but still presents a significant improvement.

At the moment Intel SSD 510 Series line will have two models, one 120 GB and a 250 GB that reach write speeds of 500 and 315 MB / s. Obviously, all models feature 6 Gbps SATA technology, known as SATA III. These new SSDs come to market with a considerable but not unreasonable cost of $ 584 for 250 GB and $ 284 for 120 GB.

Now only remains to see that companies will present their choice chipsets SandForce presumed that as write speeds reach over 500 MB / s.

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