The Intel X25-M 80GB Solid State Drive Review

[fchen1978]

Hello Apoptosis,

I have met the same problem, and I attemped to use hdderase to do enhanced secure erase, but it prompted to ask whether erase some extra space on SSD. If I choose yes, it says unable to do it, if choose no, it just return back to the option menu. I noticed that I used hdderase 4.0, but you seem to use another version. Can you tell me which version you used? Thanks a lot.

Feng

[fteoath64]

Great review and nice drive. But I will say what a lot of people will not say. Very high prices for what they are and that coming from Intel of all manufacturers. It does not instill confidence from users while we are seeing Samsung trying to drop prices and Seagate who claims they wanted to come into the market next year.

We all want to see serious competition in this SSD space. Mitron and Memoright will strike back hard and fast, I hope and soon. These Intels are using 10channels whole Mitron claims their new 8 channel will do 270Mbps read (thats 2 less channels and faster ). The only secret is that controller chip and its software that Intel is protecting but it would not be for long. Hey, AMD where are you in this space.

A lot of people are waiting to go full SSD on notebooks in 09 , so the market is huge. It would not be as long as the price is still high. Thanks to Apple for reducing it somewhat in the Gen2 MBA.

[SirBlashheart]

Great Review, exactly the kind of Information i was looking for.

The comparison to the VelociRaptors in RAID 0 is brilliant.

Thanks

[FZ1]

Welcome to the forums, guys. Please make yourself at home.

[Apoptosis]

Just got a note from Intel saying that they are releasing an end user firmware update for our X-25M and X-18M SSD drives today, available here - http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/index_update.htm. This update implements several continuous improvements and optimizations to the drive algorithms including a resolution for a performance issue. Intel is offering this firmware download to our OEM customers and any consumers who have purchased the drives. Consumers with questions can contact their PC maker or visit Intel support at http://www.intel.com/support/9089.htm for more information.

[FZ1]

Are you going to do an update to the review or did they ask for the drive back when you did the review?

[Apoptosis]

Are you going to do an update to the review or did they ask for the drive back when you did the review?

An update is in the works... If you read the Corsair SSD review from last week you'd know that ;)

[FZ1]

I have too much stuff in my head...I'm getting forgetful