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2011 seems to be the year that Solid State Drives (SSD) will move into the mainstream. Manufacturers are dropping the prices of this technology to help integrate them into more user systems. It has been well documented that SSD perform much faster than...
Fast, Low power consumption, Works with both laptop and desktops, Includes 3.5" adapter, Brings new life to older laptops/desktops, Built in TRIM support, Works with Intel SSD toolbox, Threeyear warranty...
Expensive, Lacks firmware level garbage collection...
The Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB is a competitively priced SSD that offers excellent performance. Aimed for mobile and desktop clients it can breathe new life into an older system or make a cutting edge machine even better. Currently Intel SSDs are opt...
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techreaction.net Updated:
2020-04-25 16:35:14
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As memory chip manufacturers develop better and cheaper manufacturing processes, the computer storage market is quickly becoming saturated by Solid-State Drives. On the bandwagon, Intel is quickly developing gamer and enthusiast class 34nm NAND Flash...
Upgrading to an X25-M is not only a breeze, but a must for any hardcore gamer or enthusiast. Both the 80GB and 160GB versions of the X25-M SSDs are great performers and will provide any gamer hours of quite, cool, and blazing fast gaming. At the 2.5” f...
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As Intel's second-generation mainstream SSD, the 160 GB X25-M G2 SSD sports some improvements over its predecessor. It uses Intel's latest 34 nm NAND flash memory, which delivers faster write speeds as well as higher storage capacity. It also supports...
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itshootout.com Updated:
2020-04-25 16:35:14
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Intel has been dominating the performance CPU market since the release of its Core 2 Duo chips several years ago, but there’s another sector of the market the firm has also been quietly attempting to conquer; Solid State Storage. Intel’s current consu...
The tests we ran today provide a good indication of the performance and value of this Intel drive. At around the £200 mark it’s sitting at about £2.50 per GB, which although expensive by traditional HDD standards is par for the course in the SSD world...
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We recently upgraded our 2010 reference platform, and it should do justice to the latest SATA 6Gb/s drives and the TRIM command. The first part...
We recently upgraded our storage test system with a SATA 6Gb/s controller and Windows 7 to accommodate the TRIM feature and upcoming SATA 6Gb/s drives. Soon, we’ll be providing a new charts category that lists all of our 2010 SSD tests. This article in...
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storagereview.com Updated:
2020-04-25 16:35:14
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Intel’s X25-M SSD is the current industry standard holding the title as one of the best flash storage drives money can buy. Last year Intel made their best drive even better by decreasing the flash manufacturing process from 50nm to 34nm, substantial...
If this review has showed us one thing, it is that fast sequential transfer speeds aren’t important in the whole scheme of things. Out of the four SSDs we tested the Intel X25-M had the slowest sequential write speeds by far. This changed when we shif...
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madshrimps.be Updated:
2020-04-25 16:35:14
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Those keeping track of the SSD evolution know that Intel’s SSD product have set a high standard for others to follow and try to keep up with. Their X25-M series features 10 controllers and has ruled the performance charts for everything but sequential...
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Performance issues, excessive power consumption, and high cost previously kept many folks from buying SSDs. These 12 new drives finally give us a...
The good news is that none of the 12 SSDs we reviewed left a bad impression. Only one product, the Cavalry Pelican SSD, failed to reach the performance level we’d expect from modern drives (200+ MB/s reads for desktop/mobile type SSDs). Every other...
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Behardware.com Updated:
2020-04-25 16:35:14
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August 27, 2009 Intel made a lot of noise when it arrived on the SSD market in September 2008. With an ultra-high performance 10 channel controller, very effective wear levelling and limitation of writes on memory blocks, the Santa Clara giant had com...
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Last fall, Intel turned the solid state storage world upside down when it released the ground-breaking X25-M, the first drive to offer a combination of fast read and write speeds while using lower-cost multi-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash memory. Since th...
Blazing fast application open times, Low cost per gigabyte...
Expensive overall, Modest write performance...
Intel’s second-gen SSD represents a good value, but its write speeds could be improved.
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Given the firms expertise in both storage controller design and semiconductor fabrication, it was probably only a matter of time before Intel got into the solid-state storage business. The chip giant finally burst onto the SSD scene a little less than...
Intels tick-tock approach to processor development delivers new architectures on each tock and then shrinks them to finer process technologies with each tick. This philosophy now appears to be influencing the companys solid-state drives. The second-g...
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When Intel released their first generation 50nm SSD product, the market buzzed with appreciation for the product and its overall performance profile. We in fact took you through the ins and outs of Intels new MLC-based Solid State Drive product line...
Excellent Performance, 34nm NAND Flash, Lower Cost Per GB, Random Write Performance...
Price Per GB High In Comparison to Hard Drives, Sustained Writes Lower Than Competing Offerings...
The second generation Intel 34nm X25-M SSD showed it was marginally faster in traditional application performance tests like PCMark Vantage but was significantly faster in our synthetic tests like IOmeter and ATTO, where it offered performance gains o...
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Last fall we had the pleasure of looking at Intel's first Solid State Drive series that was built using 50nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash components. It is hard to believe that was nearly a year ago, but time has flown by and Intel has already...
The Intel X25-M 160GB G2 Solid-State Drive is the real deal and is ideal for mainstream computers that will be making the move to Windows 7 when it comes out in October 2009...
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Be sure to read our latest SSD article: The SSD Relapse for an updated look at the SSD market.Earlier today the FedEx man dropped off a box with this in it:That's the new X25-M G2 I wrote about yesterday, which features a slightly improved controller...
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Ive been a fan of the Intel X25-M series ever since reading Ryans review back in September. I also have it to thank for leading me into the hot seat of hardware reviewing. My work with Ryan to report on fragmentation issues present in the early f...
While the real-world improvements appear only marginal over its predecessor they *are* improvements. When combined with the drastic reductions in cost, Intel will be giving the competition a real run for their money. If the distributors can keep the...
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