Intel Director of Overclocking Dan Ragland disclosed that the business was experimenting with an overclockable SSD, which was obviously canceled.

One of his concerns is the potential of data loss. If the SSD is unstable at particular frequencies, it may store data incorrectly, and when you attempt to read a file, your information may be incorrect or the file itself may be corrupted, which is certainly something to avoid. Additionally, adding voltage controls and improved power systems to SSDs would significantly raise their cost, and we doubt that the benefits would justify the increase. Even yet, it's intriguing to learn that it was tested and that they observed benefits.. The information was revealed after Ian Cutress inquired as to whether he had overclocked gear that was never released, to which he responded:

Yes, we love to experiment. You name it, we have tried to overclock it! All kinds of products from different categories. We've talked about notebooks and desktops, and there have also been other things we've tried to overclock. I don't want to imply that we've checked everything Intel has done, but when a new product category comes out, we look at it, and ask if there's any margin. We wonder if there is a market for overclocking. We ask consumers if they want that, or if it will have any value. I'll give you an example: I've done some pioneering work on overclocking SSDs.

In fact, there's a lot of headroom, at least when we've looked at overclocking SSDs. Because like a CPU, they have their own power limits, and depending on whether you can cool it or what environment you're in, there's a margin. But when we evaluated it, and we asked ourselves if the data was at risk – we have surveyed the market and finally made the decision not to go down that path. It's something we always keep an open mind about, but at the time that was the decision.

If you're interested in the world of overclocking, or at least curious about how Intel's Overclocking Department operates, we encourage you to read the complete interview.

Intel was going to make an SSD that could be overclocked - but plans got canned