Beyond that we don’t know much about this drive other than it’s a prototype with very early beta firmware. The particular drive being demonstrated is a 480GB drive, though more than likely if this comes about Intel will offer a variety of SSD sizes. The SSD Intel is using to try out SSD overclocking looks to carry the part number SSDSC2BB480G4 : BTW元070050Z480QGN, while the first portion of the part number brings up a high end enterprise drive (Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 480GB w/ 20nm MLC NAND Flash), the overall drive is a custom prototype SSD for overclocking (could this be the upcoming Intel SSD 730 series?). Intel XTU is already quite popular among the enthusiast crowd for overall system overclocking, with the added ability to overclock the certain Intel SSD’s I don’t doubt that the popularity will continue to grow as it becomes more powerful. Intel has added the overclocking ability to their already popular Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, or XTU for short.
Our picture didn’t turn out the greatest, but it’ll get the job done. Other companies have released ‘overclocked’ drives in the past by offering models with different clock speeds, but this is the first time end users have the ability to adjust the clock speeds.
As you know the Intel K series processors are the mainstream processors that have unlocked multipliers and can be overclocked quite easily, and now it looks like we might see a K-series SKU for the SSD line up! This means that Intel would have to unlock the ‘dials’ on the SSD to give users the ability to adjust clock speeds on the controller frequency as well as the NAND Flash memory bus frequency.
The Intel Developer Forum is next month and on the agenda is a workshop on SSD Overclocking with a new prototype Intel SSD! We were expecting to learn all about that next month, but it appears that Intel wanted to get some community feedback before IDF and they are showing off SSD Overclocking right now at PAX Prime.įrom what we gather Intel is thinking about about creating a ‘K’ series SKU for Intel Solid-State Drives.
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