Intel’s New 510 Series SSD Utilises 6Gbps SATA III

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Intel has released their latest line of SSD (Solid State Drive), the 510 series. Using the new 6Gbps SATA III interface, the Intel’s New 510 Series SSD has a theoretical throughput speed of, well 6Gbps – pretty speedy indeed. You will need a motherboard with the latest chipsets to take full advantage of the new SATA III speeds like Intel’s new ‘Cougar Point’ chipset.

With this new 510 series, you can expect sequential read speeds of 500MB/s and write speeds of about 315MB/s for the larger capacity drives which is a significant increase over the older Intel X25-M and X18-M SSD SATA II models. On release, Intel will unleash two models. A 250GB capacity model priced at $584 and a cheaper 120GB model which come in at around $284. The Intel 510 Series SSD also uses Intel’s new 34-nm NAND flash memory.

With these size SSD, most people will use them in a dual drive system. You use the SDD to store your operating system and programs for ultra fast performance, and use a standard hard drive to store your larger data, photos and videos files etc.