Intel SSD 313 Series Cache Drives Have Arrived

[tecmo34]

Intel has released its new SSD 313 Series caching solution featuring Intel Smart Response Technology.

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[Hypertraxx]

Still, slow, as Intel always is with SSD's.

 

[confish21]

lame...

 

[blazorthon]

Uhhh, Intel... SSDs are supposed to be a lot faster than hard drives, not rather parallel with them. Get with the times and stop making this crap. I don't even see a good reason to make an SSD that doesn't need SATA3 anymore. Sure, even on SATA2 a fast SSD is awesome, but SATA3 drives are backwards compatible, so there's no reason to not use the newer, faster SATA3 and saturate it at least a little.

 

[victorious 3930k]

[citation][nom]Hypertraxx[/nom]Still, slow, as Intel always is with SSD's.[/citation]

:O How on earth can you call the 520 slow?

 

[victorious 3930k]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Uhhh, Intel... SSDs are supposed to be a lot faster than hard drives, not rather parallel with them. Get with the times and stop making this crap. I don't even see a good reason to make an SSD that doesn't need SATA3 anymore. Sure, even on SATA2 a fast SSD is awesome, but SATA3 drives are backwards compatible, so there's no reason to not use the newer, faster SATA3 and saturate it at least a little.[/citation]
The reason SSDs feel smoother are the IOPS, not the r/w speed.

BTW, both these comments come from a Vertex 4 buyer.

 

[eddieroolz]

This article reads like an advertisement.

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]Hypertraxx[/nom]Still, slow, as Intel always is with SSD's.[/citation]

Yet the 520 has sppeds matching the Samsung 830 and Intel has a PCIe SSD coming out that will pretty much kill anything with its insane 2200MB/s read and 1800MB/s write:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-710-Lyndonville-720-Ramsdale,12956.html

While I think these drives are a bit over priced, they will still do what they are designed to do; give the HDD an nice bit of speed boost.

 

[Pawessum16]

For the vast majority of consumers, at $120-140, it's useless. Hello Intel!!! SSD's have hit $1/GB. I only see this as worthwhile in enterprise reliability oriented environments.

 

[fudoka711]

[citation][nom]Hypertraxx[/nom]Still, slow, as Intel always is with SSD's.[/citation]

These are only used for caching I believe - so I'm assuming they operate in a similar manner to seagate's hybrid drives.

Intel's 520 ssd's are, as we all know, pretty darn fast.

 

[hellfire24]

very fast and reliable.

 

[jdamon113]

Hypertraxx :

I just got the intel 520 drive with sandforce chipset. This is bar far the fastest drive I have owned and I have owned several.
I get it you dislike intel. So buy your sluggish Amd system, but bitch elseware or at least know what the hell your talking about. NOTE THIS intel drive have a the best reliability, so sure someone can make a faster system but what good is it when they fail. and they fail a lot.

 

[Guest]

wouldn't it be cheaper to get Crucials SSD Cache for around 100$ for 50GB

 

[bison88]

[citation][nom]Hypertraxx[/nom]Still, slow, as Intel always is with SSD's.[/citation]


Bullshit on so many levels, and they market their different SSD's according to the segment they're selling it in, like all other SSD manufacturers do.

 

[ProDigit10]

You can't be serious on the pricing! $120 for 20GB?
Come on!
I bought my 120GB SSD for almost the same price!

 

[alidan]

let me take a guess... everyone complaining about cost vs gb dont understand what this drive is for.

this drive is a cashe drive... this isnt like other ones where it boots crap off of it, this is meant to be a scratch disk and preform in ways that would slit a standard ssds throat.

in that respect, this drive is expensive, but serves a much needed purpose... kind of... at least in systems where you cant upgrade them in whatever way you want... personally, i would go for a motherboard that could support craptons of ram, and make a scratch disc out of a ram drive.

 

[victorious 3930k]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]let me take a guess... everyone complaining about cost vs gb dont understand what this drive is for.this drive is a cashe drive... this isnt like other ones where it boots crap off of it, this is meant to be a scratch disk and preform in ways that would slit a standard ssds throat. in that respect, this drive is expensive, but serves a much needed purpose... kind of... at least in systems where you cant upgrade them in whatever way you want... personally, i would go for a motherboard that could support craptons of ram, and make a scratch disc out of a ram drive.[/citation]
Enough craptons of ram would cost more than this.

BTW, the reason it's so "overpriced" is because they use SLC, not MLC, or even the horrible TLC.

 

[Guest]

So what are some typical applications and specific usage examples for something like this?

 

[doron]

Knowing that Qualcomm is gunning for cheap notebooks, which will be designed to be slim and probably with NAND cells, i feel that Intel is better selling those for way cheaper to OEMs.

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]victorious 3930k[/nom]Enough craptons of ram would cost more than this.BTW, the reason it's so "overpriced" is because they use SLC, not MLC, or even the horrible TLC.[/citation]

if i had the money, and was using a system that i knew would be having heavy scratch disc use, i would probably get a server board, or at the very least a quad channel intel board, loading that up with 32gb would cost about 200$

you have to consider the type of system this is aimed at, and that is the person who will use it as a scratch disc because the memory in it can what... withstand a million or so writes? the person who would be looking into this as an option would already be willing to drop craptons on a system already, making this only really viable to a small amount of people who have a great system, but not great enough to make a scratch disc out of ram, and could use one thats faster than a hdd.

and its not overpriced, i never used that word because i was aware the type of memory its useing.