[Brian]

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.

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[SSDaddict]

1st review as far as I can see

Looking forward to more details...

I can see your enthusiasm, and there is at least one small error,
also pairs it up with 128GB of DDR3 DRAM for cache
should be 128MB, or else I'm buying them all

This post has been edited by SSDaddict: 28 February 2011 - 11:38 AM

[Brian]

You pay for speed sometimes, thanks for the catch, fixed it.

We're running our benchmarks now. So far...interesting. Not going to blow the doors off, but I don't think that's really the intention here. We'll keep updating the review throughout the day.

[Rekonn]

Cool, when it is going to be available at retail? And what is it going to cost?

[TSullivan]

SSDaddict, on 28 February 2011 - 11:38 AM, said:

1st review as far as I can see

Looking forward to more details...

I can see your enthusiasm, and there is at least one small error,
also pairs it up with 128GB of DDR3 DRAM for cache
should be 128MB, or else I'm buying them all

BBBUT its actually a RAM/NAND hybrid model

We had the drive in our hands for 30 minutes writing that up. Good catch.

So far performance falls between the 256GB C300 and the 240GB Vertex 3.

[Brian]

What is interesting will be the price. NE and Amazon don't have it listed yet. The press release gives $584 and $284 for the 250GB and 120GB SSDs, but that's in 1,000 quantities. We'll have to see what happens at retail as that will go a long way toward determining viability.

[TSullivan]

Here are some quick and dirty CDM shots of the 510 on Intel ICH10R vs LSI 9260. One interesting thing is we don't really see much performance jump in random 4K write under higher queue depths.

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[sblantipodi]

great!
how this Disks will be named?
The full name will be Intel 510 SSD?

This isn't Intel G3, right?

[ravedave]

It appears the controller is the same as in the C400, the BKK2 model.

http://www.anandtech...rs-415mbs-reads

[Brian]

sblantipodi, on 28 February 2011 - 01:11 PM, said:

great!
how this Disks will be named?
The full name will be Intel 510 SSD?

This isn't Intel G3, right?

Intel SSD 510

Intel G3 is a made up name by enthusiasts just meaning to give the next gen some sort of common name.

The next up? Intel SSD 710 enterprise drive.