Intel intros new SSD with 500MBps speed

SANTA CLARA, USA: Chip maker Intel Corporation launched its next line of solid-state drives (SSD), Intel SSD 510 Series.

The new Intel SSD 510 series features SATA 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) port and comes with the second generation Intel Core processor-based platforms.

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The company says that with data transfer supports 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.

The company claims that the SSD 510 offers the fastest sequential read and write speeds of any consumer SATA SSD available today, providing industry leading performance that beats a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) by more than 50 percent.

"The Intel SSD 510 Series helps round out our SSD product line and was specifically designed for applications that require high sequential media transfers," said Pete Hazen, director, marketing, Intel's NAND Solutions Group. "Whether it's a gamer wanting impeccable visual performance and faster game loading, or a performance-intensive workstation user, the new 6Gbps SATA SSD from Intel is not only significantly faster than the top 10,000 RPM gaming HDD, it's also faster than two RAIDed gaming HDDs."

The Intel SSD 510 Series uses Intel 34-nanometer NAND flash memory. The product comes in a 250GB capacity priced at $584 and a 120GB at $284, for 1,000-unit quantities.