Description
Intel Corporation announced today the next in a line of new solid-state drives (SSD), the Intel® Solid-State Drive 510 Series. The new Intel SSD 510 features fast SATA 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) performance to take full advantage of Intel’s transition to higher speed SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms. Supporting data transfers of up to 500 megabytes per second (MB/s), the Intel SSD 510 doubles the sequential read speeds, and at up to 315MB/s more than triples the sequential write speeds of Intel’s current 3Gbps SSDs, to transfer more data in less time. This makes it ideal for demanding gamers, media creators, performance-intensive workstation users and any technology enthusiast.
Reviews
1. The Intel SSD 510 Review by AnandTech
The X25-M was a tremendous first attempt by Intel to get into the SSD market. In our review of the SSD I wrote that Intel just Conroe’d the SSD market, and if it weren’t for the pesky 80MB/s sequential write speed limitation the X25-M would’ve been given the title: World’s Fastest Drive. Its successor, the X25-M G2, was a mild update that brought prices down through the use of 34nm NAND. Remember that Intel is also 49% owner of the IMFT joint venture and as a result can be quite competitive on NAND pricing (and quite early to adopt new NAND technologies).
2. Intel SSD 510 Review (250GB) by StorageReview
Intel’s success with the X25-M has been quite remarkable. Not only has the drive sold more than any other SSD on the market, it’s had a solid track record for reliability and compatibility as well. It’s with great anticipation that we’ve been waiting for Intel’s next generation SSD – now it’s here, the Intel SSD 510. Intel continues to build on their new naming scheme, the SSD 310 is their little mSATA SSD and now the SSD 510, a mainstream SSD leveraging a SATA 6Gb/s interface and 34nm NAND to yield speeds of up to 500MB/s sequential reads and 315MB/s writes for the 250GB capacity. Intel also offers a 120GB capacity that posts speeds of 450MB/s and 210MB/s.
3. Intel 510 SSD Review by Guru3d
The 120GB version will cost about $280 while the 250GB version will cost about $580. When the device arrived in our test-lab a few days ago we ran a quick first test with ATTO benchmark software, we topped the advertised performance in MB/s in both reads and writes, pure unadulterated performance from a single SSD. Now, over the past year most of you guys on the AMD platform already got the royal SATA 6G treatment as all new 800 series AMD chipsets support that new faster interface. With the release and demise of Sandy Bridge from Intel also came an integrated SATA 6G controller in their series H67/P67 chipsets, and that last one is darn good — well at least the 6G connectors.
