Intel’s Larsen Creek SSDs leak out, courtesy of ASRock’s Z68 motherboard

Manufacturers just aren’t willing to wait for the eighth of May — they want to announce their spiffy new Intel Z68 Express motherboards now , dang it, whatever the consequences. Well, we can’t really complain, especially when said motherboards reveal brand-new Intel products in trade. The above image was pulled direct from a PDF flyer for the ASRock Z68 Extreme4 motherboard, which depicts an intriguing benchmark — if you pair one of Intel’s 20GB Larsen Creek solid state drives with a standard 1TB magnetic hard drive, Intel’s SSD caching technology can allegedly give you much speedier performance. Of course, there’s no such thing as a 20GB Larsen Creek drive, right? This is the part where we’d tell you that Intel may finally be democratizing solid state storage and making it an affordable upgrade to all — except we know full well that Z68 is the company’s premium Sandy Bridge -supporting chipset, so don’t get your hopes up too far. [Thanks, Anton] Intel’s Larsen Creek SSDs leak out, courtesy of ASRock’s Z68 motherboard originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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