Solid State Disk (SSD) X25-E MLC 2.5? - 80 Go - SATA-300 Expert Reviews

Last fall, Intel slapped the solid state drive market on the back of the head with the release of the 80GB X25-M MLC drive. That drive absolutely trounced the competition with its 200MB/s read speeds, incredibly low random-access times, and best of ...

First, the good news. The 160GB X25-M is even faster than the 80GB, offering 209MB/s sustained reads and 79.5MB/s sustained writes in our h2benchw benchmark, compared to the 80GB version's 206MB/s and 64MB/s, respectively. Random-access reads and ...

Blazing fast application open times, Low cost per gigabyte

Expensive overall, Modest write performance

You won't spend a lot of time looking at an SSD, so its design isn't very important. Still, when you spend hundreds of dollars on a high-performance component, you want it to be well built. The X25-M G2's faux silver casing won't win any beauty ...

How big a deal is Intel's entry into the solid-state-drive game? The announcement of the company's new X-25M SSD, and a faster version for enthusiasts, all but overshadowed details of the company's next-generation CPU at its fall developer conference. ...

Pushes the limits of the SATA 3GB interface

Write speed is just average

How fast? The 10,000rpm Western Digital Velociraptor (reviewed September 2008) offered sustained transfer speeds of 98MB/s. The $1,500 MemoRight MR25.2-32/64S GT from our SSD roundup (November 2008) turned in read speeds of 112MB/s. The Intel X-25M ...

In the past, I've been loath to recommend SSDs, except for in environments that require rugged equipment or low power use. But given the overall performance of the 2.5-inch Intel X25 80GB Solid-State Drive, I'm much more bullish. The MLC NAND ...

Very fast reads, exceptional write performance for an SSD. Almost no heat. Silent

Expensive. Write performance sometimes inferior to fast rotating storage

It costs a pretty penny, but the Intel X25 80GB Solid-State Drive is one of the fastest storage devices I?ve ever seen. You know you want one.

SSDs were all the hype last year, then the "bubble" popped when tests performed on the Macbook Air showed that the SSD drive did little more than add $1,500 to the computer's final price. No performance increase, no battery life increase - two of the ...

When Intel released its first SSD (Solid State Drive) in the shape of the 80GB X25-M, we were amazed by the combination of blistering performance and silent operation; however, the stratospheric price of £399 was, to ...

Intel has changed the fabrication process that it uses to manufacture the flash memory in its X25-M SSD. The result is a slightly faster drive that is available in 80GB and 160GB versions and which costs quite a bit less than the original X25-M.

Intel's 34nm Flash memory die-shrink has increased the performance of its X25-M - and made it much cheaper.

Intel's 34nm Flash memory die-shrink has increased the performance of its revamped X25-M and at the same time made the SSD much cheaper. Excellent news. ®

With a read speed of almost 200 MBps, this SSD simply can't go wrong.

Performance at any costs? A solid state drive is probably the bes ...

The battery life made itself pleasantly noticeable, as well; the runtime in the tested MacBook was extended by about 20 minutes in normal use (surfing, office, etc)