Intel Solid-State Drive 510/ 310 Series
Intel 510 codenamed Emcrest Intel is getting ready to launch two new 34nm 2.5 SSD drives based on its latest 34nm process.
Codename Emcrest will convert to Intel 510 brand that will guarantee up to 450MB read and 300MB/s write speeds. Let’s not forget that these drives are SATA III 6Gb/s compatible. The specification promises up to 20K IOPs at 4KB read and 4K IOPs at 4KB write.
Intel plans to launch these drives in February and the bigger of two is Intel 510 250GB, which is going to sell for $579 at launch. The smaller one is Intel 510 120GB 34nm drive that will debut for $279 in February. The previous performance king, the X25-E with its 64GB storage and 250MB read and 170MB write, still sells for around €600.
If you are after performance and you can afford to buy an SSD drive that costs more than an average Joe's TV, you might want to mark February in your calendar.
http://www.fudzilla.com/memory/item/...50/300mb/s-r/w
Faster SSDs from Intel in February?
26.01.2011 00:01
Time were recently published by Fudzilla rumors regarding the upcoming release in February, faster solid state drives from Intel fit popular, but they stand in contrast to what is of "Postville Refresh" generation was the most famous - and still give meaning.
But we put together the rumors at first. The unknown source coming from Intel is reportedly the new, with the 310 SSD naming scheme to continue and introduced new 2.5-inch drives, codenamed "EMCR" Intel SSD 510 call. You are sequential transfer rates of up to 450 MB / s read and 300 MB / s and writing support to achieve consequently SATA 6 Gb / s. The power at 4K random reads and writes is given as 20,000 and 4000 IOPS. While this is less obvious than, say, the M4 provides C400/Crucial Micron , but this may be related to the test conditions, which are unfortunately not in it.
As memory chips continue to come from the "Postville" drives already known, manufactured in 34 nm MLC chips. This may be due to the fact the cause, that there is still the life of the 25-nm chips are problems. So far, the OCZ only manufacturer of products based on these new memory chips of the Intel / Micron joint venture IMFT extradite and with life expectancy in control of the problems believed. In terms of storage capacity according to Intel first, only two models with 120 GB and 250 GB capacity are planned, which will cost 579 U.S. dollars respectively 279th
And "Postville Refresh"? Probably - but this is pure speculation - Intel has under the other memory chips code-named simply changed. Perhaps the decision was made but also due to changes in higher performance of failing to do so. For what is - unofficially - to date of Postville Refresh was known, sounded a little different. 250 MB / s read and 170 MB / s should be achieved when sequentially, all with SATA 3 Gb / s, with subsequent support of SATA 6 Gb / s has been speculated about. Also was of 50,000 IOPS for random reads and writes 40,000 for the speech.
Make sense of the new rumors especially when one controller of Intel and Micron pulls into the calculus. Although it is largely unknown, but, like Micron and Intel uses a proprietary technology complementary to controller from Marvell for its Solid State Drives. The performance of the drives should, therefore, to a certain extent resemble. If one now Micron provided performance data for the C400 and the data of the P3-256 from Corsair over the information from Fudzilla, you can see in the sequential transfer rates exactly this:
Micron C400/Crucial m4 (256 GB) Corsair P3-256 Intel SSD 510
Seq. Read 415 MB / s 480 MB / s 450 MB / s
Seq. Write 260 MB / s 320 MB / s 300 MB / s
4K random read 40K IOPS ? 20k IOPS
4K random write 50k IOPS ? 4k IOPS
The fact that the random values do not match, could - as they should vote - as mentioned above can be explained by a different measurement. It is also noticeable that the old information to "Postville Refresh" relatively good fit to those values, we need for a C400 with 128 GB on SATA 3 Gb / s received. Whether the rumors vote now, we should soon be able to find out for - February is near.
http://www.computerbase.de/news/hard...ts-im-februar/
