Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 2793 reviews of Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive. The average rating for this product is 4.5/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the design and reliability. Comments are divided on the size. There are some negative views about the price.

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 16 user reviews of Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. People are impressed by the usability. The reliability is also mentioned favorably. Reviews are divided on the size.

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94% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Nov, 2024

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 896 user reviews of Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.5/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. People really like the design and size. The price and reliability also get good feedback.

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91% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Nov, 2024

Expert review by : Vladislav Savov (engadget.com)

Intel's 34nm X25-M runs like a thoroughbred SSD, costs less

It was only two days ago that they finally became official, but already we've got a couple of reviews springing up to tell us all about the second generation X25-M SSDs from Intel. PC Perspective kick things off with a full examination of the new ...

Jul, 2009

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Expert review by : PCMag Staff (pcmag.com)

Intel X25-M 160 GB

Preview of the Intel X25-M 160 GB.

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Sep, 2009

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Expert review by : Rich Brown Justin Yu (cnet.com)

Intel X25-M High Performance SSD (80GB) review: Intel X25-M High Performance SSD (80GB)

Intel X25-M High Performance SSD (80GB)

Fast transfer speeds; improves laptop battery life; shorter boot times.

Expensive; low gigabyte-to-dollar ratio.

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive enjoys several advantages over both spinning disk drives as well as other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time, and laptop battery life. Its one drawback is that it's pricier than even its...

Oct, 2008

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Expert review by : Florian P. Helmberger (notebookcheck.net)

Review Intel X-25M SSD 80 GB

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)

Feb, 2009

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Intel X25M Review

nbsp; 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...

My friends, Intel has just gone “nuclear” with hard-drives.

Oct, 2008

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Expert review by : Review Crew (reviewboard.com)

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB) Review

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot ...

Jun, 2010

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Expert review by : Nathan Edwards (maximumpc.com)

Intel X-25M 160GB MLC SSD

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...

Blazing-fast reads and random writes; decent capacity. Cost per GB keeps falling

Can't keep up in sustained writes

The X25-M remains a rock-solid choice for SSDs, and its read speeds and random-write response times are second to none. But in sustained-write speeds, it’s no match for the Patriot Torqx and its peers. But hey, the 160GB X25-M is $.10/GB cheaper than...

Oct, 2009

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Expert review by : Gordon Mah Ung (maximumpc.com)

Intel X-25M

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

As for the X-25M, we’re unimpressed by its write performance, but since its read speeds are twice as fast as those of the other SSDs we’ve tested, and it costs about a third of what the fastest SLC drive on the market runs, we have no choice but to...

Nov, 2008

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Expert review by : ZDNet (zdnet.com)

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.

Fast transfer speed, Low power consumption, Shorter boot times

Expensive

Oct, 2008

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Expert review by : Shane N. (motherboards.org)

Intel X25-M 120GB SSD Review

Just watching your computer turn on and be usable in 30 seconds or less is pretty sweet. And you can also see that even though the Kingston KC100 SSDNow has a much faster transfer speed, it had around the same amount of boot time as the Intel X25-M SSD.

Nov, 2011

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