Eurocom adds Intel SSDs to workstation line

Eurocom has announced plans to use Intel's 510 solid state drives (SSDs) to boost performance in its line of mobile workstations.

The company said the Intel SSDs will be optimised for the Sandy Bridge Eurocom Neptune and Racer mobile workstation lines.

The drives will be offered in 120GB and 250GB capacities.

Introduced by Intel last month, the 510 SSD line offers read speeds of up to 500MB/s and write speeds reaching 315 MB/s. Designed to work with the Intel Sandy Bridge chipset, the 510 drives support SATA throughput of up to 6Gbit/s.

While SSDs have remained primarily an option for high-end systems due to their superior performance, the drives also consume less energy than traditional platter-based hard drives.

For Eurocom, the addition of the Intel SSDs to its current line of both solid state and platter-based drives offers an option for high-performance mobile workstations.

"The Intel 510 series SSDs gives Eurocom clients looking for the most powerful mobile workstations on the market a super-fast storage option, that is rugged, efficient and performance oriented," said Eurocom president Mark Bialic.