Testseek.com have collected 96 expert reviews of the Intel 2.5 inch X25-M Series SATA300 and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel 2.5 inch X25-M Series SATA300.
September 2008
(82%)
96 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(86%)
82 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Freakin Fast
Seamless Gaming
Compact
Snappy Menus in Game
Start Up
Shut Down
And over all Productivity Improvement
Did I Mention it was Fast?
Really Really Ridiculously Fast
Super fast read speeds
Recent price drop makes it a more feasible purchase
Impressive overall performance during testing
250MB/s read speed specification
Price of around $180 (US)
3-year warranty on parts and labor
Very fast read speeds
Exceptional write performance for an SSD
Almost no heat
Silent.
Fast application opens
Great multitasking performance
Saves battery life
Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable
Excellent reading performance
Outstanding 4K random I/O performance
Excellent multitasking potential
Lightning fast access times
Completely silent operation
Fast operating system st
Blazingfast reads and random writes
Decent capacity. Cost per GB keeps falling.
Fast transfer speeds
Improves laptop battery life
Shorter boot times.
Phenomenal linear read speed of 243.5 MBps
Extremely swift 0.09 ms response time
Low power consumption may reduce data center energy costs
Resistant to extreme shock impact
Up to 80 GB of SSD capacity
5-Year Intel product warranty
Fast
Rugged
Cool
Silent
Plug-and-play replacement for traditional SATA laptop drives
Pushes the limits of the SATA 3GB interface!
System Is Snappier
Fantastic RAID Like Speed
Quiet
Never Gets Hot
Standard Sata Inteface
Easy To Hide In The Chassis
Did We Mention Fast
The editors didn't like
Ouch...Price Tag Hurts...
Like with other SSDs
You get less capacity for the money
70MB/s write speed specification
Comparably priced drives from other brands offer much greater write speeds
Expensive
Write performance in some apps still inferior to fast rotating storage.
Not available for retail purchase
Slow sequential writing speed.
Can't keep up in sustained writes.
Low gigabyte-to-dollar ratio.
6.25 per gigabyte of MLC SSD storage space
Poor linear write speed in comparison to the competition
Impressive overall performance during testing, 250MB/s read speed specification, Price of around $180 (US), 3-year warranty on parts and labor
70MB/s write speed specification, Comparably priced drives from other brands offer much greater write speeds
Many have known of the quality and performance of the Intel X25-M 80GB solid state drive since it was released in 2008, so nothing new may have been revealed by this review. But, by taking a look at it while going head-to-head with a couple of high pe...
Abstract: In its 80 GB version, the Intel SSDSA2M080G2GC (ouch!), or more simply the X25-M Postville, uses the Intel PC29AS21BA0 controller with 32 MB of Micron RAM and 10 x 8 GB 34nm Intel/Micron flash chips.
Abstract: A similar design is used as on the SSDSA2M160G2GC, but this time the RAM is from ISSI while the chips are from the same family but in 16 GB versions.
Freakin Fast, Seamless Gaming, Compact, Snappy Menus in Game, Start Up, Shut Down, and over all Productivity Improvement, Did I Mention it was Fast?, Really Really Ridiculously Fast,
Ouch...Price Tag Hurts...
I went into this review already knowing SSD’s where much faster than a traditional drive but this is the first time I have reviewed one in a specifically for gaming purposes; my thoughts? SSD’s are in fact the best thing for gaming since the first mul...
Abstract: With the size of pages and blocks of NAND increasing on these new chips, the controllers that use them will be aiming to make up for the losses in speed for smaller accesses that are inherent in these changes. Moreover, while this flash memory doesn't seem affected and still has an endurance of 5000 write cycl..
Super fast read speeds, recent price drop makes it a more feasible purchase,
Like with other SSDs, you get less capacity for the money
SSD's have been consistently dropping in price. Right now the 160GB Intel X-25M is going for as low as $419. The 80GB can be found for as little as $225 – and not too long ago this same drive cost $599. These prices might not be affordable enough to dri...
Abstract: For sequential read, the three programs we used confirmed Intel X-25M 160 GB as the fastest solid state drive under this kind of task. The other two drives that had great performance..
Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable, Excellent reading performance, Outstanding 4K random I/O performance, Excellent multitasking potential, Lightning fast access times, Completely silent operation, Fast operating system st
Expensive, Slow sequential writing speed.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe Intel X25-M series drives are good in fact, extremely good. Reading access times are lightning fast and applications load in an instant, making the Intel X25...
Abstract: The less expensive Intel X25-M with capacities of 80 and 160 gigabytes seem to be universal products. Like every other SSD, they deliver excellent speed of reading, both sequential and random. You should not expect them to be fast at sequential writing..
