The tests we ran today provide a good indication of the performance and value of this Intel drive. At around the £200 mark it’s sitting at about £2.50 per GB, which although expensive by traditional HDD standards is par for the course in the SSD world....

We recently upgraded our storage test system with a SATA 6Gb/s controller and Windows 7 to accommodate the TRIM feature and upcoming SATA 6Gb/s drives. Soon, we’ll be providing a new charts category that lists all of our 2010 SSD tests. This article in...

If this review has showed us one thing, it is that fast sequential transfer speeds aren’t important in the whole scheme of things. Out of the four SSDs we tested the Intel X25-M had the slowest sequential write speeds by far. This changed when we shif...

Those keeping track of the SSD evolution know that Intel’s SSD product have set a high standard for others to follow and try to keep up with. Their X25-M series features 10 controllers and has ruled the performance charts for everything but sequential ...

August 27, 2009 Intel made a lot of noise when it arrived on the SSD market in September 2008. With an ultra-high performance 10 channel controller, very effective wear levelling and limitation of writes on memory blocks, the Santa Clara giant had com...

Intel’s second-gen SSD represents a good value, but its write speeds could be improved.

Intels tick-tock approach to processor development delivers new architectures on each tock and then shrinks them to finer process technologies with each tick. This philosophy now appears to be influencing the companys solid-state drives. The second-g...

The second generation Intel 34nm X25-M SSD showed it was marginally faster in traditional application performance tests like PCMark Vantage but was significantly faster in our synthetic tests like IOmeter and ATTO, where it offered performance gains o...

The Intel X25-M 160GB G2 Solid-State Drive is the real deal and is ideal for mainstream computers that will be making the move to Windows 7 when it comes out in October 2009. ...

Be sure to read our latest SSD article: The SSD Relapse for an updated look at the SSD market.Earlier today the FedEx man dropped off a box with this in it:That's the new X25-M G2 I wrote about yesterday, which features a slightly improved controller ...

While the real-world improvements appear only marginal over its predecessor they *are* improvements. When combined with the drastic reductions in cost, Intel will be giving the competition a real run for their money. If the distributors can keep the...