Intel Unveils SSDs With 6Gbit/Sec Throughput

CWmike writes "Intel announced a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) on Monday that are based on the serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 specification, which doubles I/O throughput compared to previous generation SSDs. Using the SATA 3.0 specs, Intel's new 510 Series gets 6Gbit/sec. performance and thus can take full advantage of the company's transition to higher speed 'Thunderbolt' SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced second generation Intel Core processor platforms. Supporting data transfers of up to 500MB/sec, the Intel SSD 510 doubles the sequential read speeds and more than triples the sequential write speeds of Intel's SATA 2.0 SSDs. The drives offer sequential write speeds of up to 315MB/sec."

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Re:Finally, decent write speed from Intel ...

[Neil Boekend]

IMHO SSD's should be used as "something in between your HDD and your memory". As long as it's big enough to contain the OS of your choice and all the programs it's big enough. Your MP3's and movies do not require the high throughput. In a desktop this means there should be 2 disks: an ssd for speed and a hdd for capacity. In a laptop there should be an SSD on the mini-PCI-e and an HDD on sata OR, if you must (for space reasons), an SSD on the mobo and an HDD on sata. This would optimize both capacity and speed, while keeping costs (relatively) down.
The cost of an SSD is paid back by the speed, not the capacity. What I find strange is that shops list SSD's by EUR/GB instead of EUR * s/MB. The speed is the defining attribute, not the capacity.