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.
82010096
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
Fast application opens, Great multitasking performance, Saves battery life
Not available for retail purchase, Expensive
The hard drive is, without question, the slowest component in a modern computer. The high performance and low power consumption promised by solid state disks have been tempting users who love to multitask but hate waiting while their hard drives spin a...
Abstract: There’s no denying that Intel has paved the way for ultra-high-performance in the SSD realm with the launch of its X25-M – it completely smashes the data output of conventional drives (even under RAID 0 loads in more circumstances), doe...
Abstract: It has almost been a year since I wrote about the future of computing and how I thought that it was all about Solid State Drives (this was before I became infatuated with the cloud). Well I finally got my hands on one. It’s Intel’s new X25-M 80GB SSD a...
We certainly had high expectations for this drive as we were hoping to use it and its numbers as our Gold Standard for future reviews and boy did the Intel X-25M ever deliver. It simply crushes the competition in many of the tests to the point where it...
Published: 2010-11-27, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
The PCMark Vantage tests do a very good job showing the real world performance of solid state drives and in these we could really see just how much faster the new 120GB X25-M was compared to the 80GB model. For the most part Intel has caught up to t...
Abstract: Solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a regular option for laptops and netbooks – one recent example being the Asus Eee PC S101. But to date, there’s been scant opportunity to buy one without a laptop attached.Now, Intel is launching a range of standa...
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Published: 2008-11-23, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
Over the last few months we have seen a pretty broad range of solid state drives from many manufacturers. The truth is that many of those drives have come from only two sources, Samsung being the largest. SSD’s are made up of two primary parts, the...
