If you are a PC geek of any kind you know that it’s possible
to overclock your processor to get more performance out of it. You also know
that the latest craze in hard drives is the SSD or solid state drive that is
much faster than traditional spinning disks and is more like using a flash
drive for a hard drive.
PC giant Intel is saying that they can overclock an SSD
drive and will demonstrate it at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
They haven’t said how it will be done but if it can then that opens up a whole
new world for hard drive performance.
Since SSD drives are driven by a clock\timings just like
processors are this should be able to be done but it’s hard to say if it will
affect the reliability of the drive or not. Doing so may or may not even
increase performance too much and may in fact reduce the life of the drive. Some
are speculating that Intel is just doing this for fun and to prove that it can
be done. If it can be done and does make a difference it will be up to the
consumers to decide if they want to risk the life of their drive for a little
more performance. I guess we will find out on September 10th.
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