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
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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
Beats vast majority of desktop hard drive read/write speeds despite being notebook-capable, low heat levels, low energy consumption
Very expensive, not much storage available
This speedy little device will fit and run snugly in any 2.5in laptop bay, providing excellent performance for a terrible price. If you’ve got the money to burn and want a device that is the best of its class, then Intel’s X25-M is a device yo...
Abstract: High prices for solid-state disks (SSDs) have historically restricted the business market to enterprises requiring performance for large databases or financial services, where microseconds really matter...
Fast transfer speed, Low power consumption, Shorter boot times
Expensive, High cost per gigabyte
Intels X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest d
Abstract: Intel’s X25-M sets the benchmark for storage. With its stupendous read speeds, games and apps will load much faster than before. It’s rather pricey, as are all SSDs, so the ‘M’ for mainstream in the name is wishful thinking on Intel’s part. However, 8...
Intel’s new mainstream SSD offers stunning performance at a horribly steep price. We’re looking forward to the 160GB version, but we cant wait for the price to drop. ...
With its latest SSD drives, the Intel X18-M and Intel X25-M, Intel has realised the promise of solid-state technology. Melissa J Perenson Buy it now: click here ...
Abstract: Here it is, the new X25-M; the name sounds very much like an experimental hypersonic plane. And the analogy isn’t far off, since the new flash SSD provides excellent performance. Intel even titled one of its presentation slides “better by design,\" which is in fact true for all of the new flash SSDs.