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lineus Tech tips coverage of pxs 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel

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and steel series we're here at the

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byoc sort of joined Intel booth at PA

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Prime with Justin Whitney who's one of their team members when it comes to SSD

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marketing and you guys are talking about something that actually for my regular

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viewers I said was crazy like 24 hours

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ago justify this to me explain what this is come on man um to to be really honest

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I thought it was a little crazy too um so what we're talking about is a we've

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got a prototype drive here first time shown ever we wanted to we wanted to

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come to PS talk to the press and more importantly get enduser reaction to this

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technology we had a couple of customers that approached us and said you know

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SATA bus is starting to get saturated the technology is it stagnating a little

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bit we're looking ahead to PCI Express before you even get there

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can you do any overclocking of your drives how can you tune the performance

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and you my initial reaction was you guys

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are insane why why would you adjust the

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performance settings and maybe risk people's data they're like why does it

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have to be risky so I mean we we took that customer

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feedback started making this kind of Skunk Works project um in our Labs like

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wow it it can be stable let's go show it

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off and see what end users re reactions are so show me the Tool uh right here

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this is a beta beta feature within the Intel extreme tuning utility called SSD

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what can you do to the drive to tweak performance there's there's really two

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settings in here we're looking at the the the controller itself or the the the

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Asic it's essentially the CPU of the of the drive and we're also looking at the

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Nan um bus itself and the frequency on

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that bus so we've got those two knobs in

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in the first instance we can from 400 MZ

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to about 6 600 625 I'm sorry did you

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just said that like that's a 50% plus overclock yeah that's a exactly on the

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on the controller for that drive okay and then so for the the nanb

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frequency what what are we looking at here 80 the the stock on it is 83 MHz

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and that goes up to 100 okay so you guys

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are taking a lot of user feedback you're segmenting people out into kind of like

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Pro Gamers versus modders versus you

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know even Data Center and it guys who are here at the show what surprised you

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most about the feedback you're getting I

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well I had to pick myself up off of the

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floor here in our booth when I found out

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that we had three data center guys that had just gone through this this little

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clinic we were doing and I asked them would you

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overclock the drive after what you saw would you do it they're like oh yeah we

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would do it right now and I was like why would you possibly put your data at risk

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or other people's data at risk and they're like there is no risk for us

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we're going to validate the technology we're going to stress test it we're

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going to look at the the life of the drive and then we're going to put it in

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a cach array all the data safe behind

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that here's our cach we'll overclock

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that get our our Performance Tuned jack up the the iops you know the random iops

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on those drives and you know just roll with it okay so then the less surprising

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one I guess is the the Enthusiast Gamers and I mean what have they been saying so

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far so far they're like if there's a knob we want to turn it please don't

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limit it let us push it till it breaks and I was whoa wait that's your that's

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your storage Drive why would do you want OS on there and and brick it they're

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like well I can always you know I would I would test it out and if it you know

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if the drive froze I would unlock it and

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if you give me a utility oh so you want a utility to

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unlock yeah yeah so okay if we give you an unlock utility then you're okay with

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it yeah I'll just reinstall the OS or

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another and user jumped to the same conclusion as a data center they would

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put it into a Cash Drive configuration and leave their their bulk storage alone

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so what kind of a performance Improvement are we potentially looking at here you've got assd running um on a

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regular 520 and then on this prototype

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uh you know prototype flash prototype controller prototype firmware prototype

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utility what are we looking at here um did you mention this was a prototype

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Drive I I think I missed that part you better clarify it for the audience yeah

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this is not a production part no announcement this is a

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prototype uh what we're really seeing we

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the the top score was a from our 520 series Drive the bottom was just the

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Baseline settings on this prototype and

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we're seeing over a a 10% performance gain but more importantly if you take a

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look at the quential rights um there was a big jump and

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that's this this prototypes drives ability to handle incompressible data is

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really solid um depending on which controller you're based on you may not

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handle incompressible data you know High bit rate um high definition audio video

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those kinds of things this drive handles all data equally equally well so we saw

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that bump immediately then we started overclocking it random myops we saw

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scores go up um at least in this little clinic here

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22% so some of the sequential rights we

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saw go up 18% overall scores you know 15

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18 depends so we're you know we didn't we didn't push it too far we wanted it

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to be stable here and get that you know that feedback rather than well I did it

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and it bricked I'm out of here but yeah so far so good so I want some comments

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under this video because I think Justin's covered the the pros and cons

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pretty well at this point um two things

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number one is guys viewers out there would you sacrifice the longevity of

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your SSD to have more performance let's say you could get a 20% bump let's just

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throw that random number out there would you be willing to sacrifice that and

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number two is I guess just a a more a

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more General um how would you utilize

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this would you be comfortable running your entire system off an overclock SSD

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would you run your OS off an SSD and have all of your save games and

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everything on a secondary hard drive or would you go with something like a cash

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solution like the data center guys were saying so thank you very much Justin this has been awesome appreciate it

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thanks for uh coming and checking it out at PA first cool man guys don't forget

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we're powered here at the show by Western Digital Intel thanks for to

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Intel collectively and steel series we couldn't have done it without you