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Intel 311 Series SSD disclosed

by Navin Maini on 9 May 2011, 12:47

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We briefly touched on Intel's Larson Creek SSD last week, and today, some more information has surfaced.

 

 

The 20GB Larson Creek SSD will apparently accompany the launch of Z68 this week, and is said to be branded as the 311 Series.

Larson Creek is billed as the perfect companion to Intel's Smart Response Technology (SSD caching), which is set to come into play with Z68, and available in 2.5in SATA and mSATA flavours. The 311 Series will supposedly turn out the following:

  • Intel® X25-M SSD 80GB performance with the convenience of a single drive letter (C:\)
  • SATA 3Gb/s (SATA Revision 2.0)
  • 20GB capacity, 2.5" 9.5mm and mSATA
  • Up to 60% performance improvement over a desktop 7200 rpm hard drive
  • Built with Intel 34nm SLC Compute NAND Flash Memory - higher performance, endurance
  • Compatible with Intel 6 Series Express Chipsets: Z68, HM67, QM67

 

 

Pricing is suggested to be under $120 US Dollars.

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Posted by mpdouglas - Mon 09 May 2011 13:26
Do you know if this technology has to be your main system drive? Or could you use a “full fat” SSD of, say, 120GB for your system drive and then use this device to up the performance on a large, spinning storage drive? If this does work, is the data drive usable when removed from the Z68 PC and connected to a different (non-cached) PC? (i.e. the SSD cache is purely a volatile cache that doesn't affect the file system of the spinning disk).
Posted by aidanjt - Mon 09 May 2011 14:05
I doubt it. The SSD and HDD combination should appear as a single logical drive to the operating system.
Posted by kingpotnoodle - Mon 09 May 2011 14:14
The idea of a cache implies that all the data is on the spinny drive, and some is cloned to the SSD, and a map of these held somewhere, remapping reads/writes to SSD (which are probably background synced to spinny disk in the case of writes).

If you lose the SSD the data survives, if you lose the spinny drives chances are you just have some file fragments and parts of your OS.

I think the NDA on Intel SRT expires later this week, expect to see more on reputable review sites soon.