| | |  | | Home » Intel X25-M 80 GB Mainstream SATA II MLC 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive OEM | | | | | | | Description: | | Intel 2.5" 80GB X25-M Mainstream SATA II MLC SSD OEM | | | Features: | |
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| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.3 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.89 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.18 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 10 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
BEWARE SSD is a turning pointFeb 22, 2011
By RIP-Felix
"When nothing is left in your bag of trix. Silly rabbit!"
I have had this drive now for 1 full year. I get very frustrated using other computers now, computers others think are fast! Once you go SSD you can't go back.
My computer went from 1 min 30 sec to start up with 2 WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA 1.5 drives in Raid 0 to 29 seconds with 1 X25-M 80Gb G2. I measured this with a stopwatch from the moment I pressed the powerbutton to when internet explorer is up and running. I had IE in the startup folder to remove the human element. I liked the drive so much that I bought another and put them in RAID 0. The test results are below. This only shaved a second off the OS loading part of the startup process, as most of the processes during startup are small size files, RAID really only helps with maximum throuput and transfer speed. It actually took longer for the whole startup process beacause I had to wait for my raid controller to check the RAID array's status in BIOS, which is an added step that takes almost 15 seconds. Also, the Intel SSD Toolbox will not work for RAID arrays. I don't need the extra space that RAID offers and want the drives to last, so I put it in my laptop and maxed out it's SATA 1.5 connection. Be aware of this. If you need the size and want to use the Toolbox, then get one of the larger drives.
Everything feels more responsive/snappy. Load times for both applications and internet pages are greatly reduced; not instantanously after double clicking a shortcut or navigating, but never longer than a couple of seconds. Don't worry about the write speeds unless you really need them as they are less than 25% of a users experiance. If you heard about the reduction in SSD spead as a drive ages then you will be especially intrested in the following. I can tell you that I have noticed no reduction in speed. The reduction is there to see, but it is uterly behind the sceens. If I wasen't benchmarking I coulden't even tell. Lastly, the intel drives are far and away better all around than any other manufacturer. Look at 4K read/write speeds and access time. These are the most important for a users experiance of speed than maximum read and write speads at 100MB data sizes. This is because most of the tasks we notice as a slow compiter are due these rates in these data sizes. My RAID 0 Raptors had a 4K rate of 0.586 MB/s read, 3.015 MB/s write, and a access time of 7.9 ms. Compare thoes to the numbers below and you will see why SSD is a game changer.
HERE ARE THE NUMBERS:
First Loaded the drive with OS, updates, applications, and other stuff:
Windows Experiance Index (WEI)= 7.5
CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (5 runs of 100MB packages):
Seq = read 242.7 MB/s write = 87.54 MB/s
512K = read 166.9 MB/s write = 87.64 MB/s
4 K = read 23.41 MB/s write = 68.76 MB/s
HD Tune 2.55: Graph looks flat most of the way across
Transfer Rate
- 144.3 MB/s min
- 239.4 MB/s max
- 227.9 MB/s ave
Access Time
- 0.1 ms
After 1 full year of real world use (Intel SSD Toolbox run regularly):
Windows Experiance Index (WEI)= 7.2
CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (5 runs of 100MB packages):
Seq = read 238.3 MB/s write = 85.78 MB/s
512K = read 163.7 MB/s write = 87.31 MB/s
4 K = read 24.93 MB/s write = 58.03 MB/s
HD Tune 2.55: Graph looks bumpy most of the way to 75% than flat.
Transfer Rate
- 162.6 MB/s min
- 228.7 MB/s max
- 219.2 MB/s ave
Access Time
- 0.1 ms
2 X25-m G2 Drives in RAID 0 (Intel SSD Toolbox will not run in RAID):
Windows Experiance Index (WEI)= 7.9
CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (5 runs of 100MB packages):
Seq = read 433.4 MB/s write = 171.0 MB/s
512K = read 235.3 MB/s write = 164.4 MB/s
4 K = read 21.1 MB/s write = 56.27 MB/s
HD Tune 2.55: Graph looks bumpy all the way.
Transfer Rate
- 163.8 MB/s min
- 311.8 MB/s max
- 249.5 MB/s ave
Access Time
- 0.1 ms
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
The best SSD available.Dec 15, 2010
By vorsicht
SSDs are new so there is a lot of old and miss information out there. In the end Intel SSDs always perform in real life exactly as advertised. Two of these in a RAID max out the SATA II. Degradation is minimal and there Intel does ot use tricks to get high first use bench marks like the san force.
There are a lot of benchmarks that make other SSDs seem faster. But if you dig into the methodology you see that the X-25 is faster.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
The best upgrade for a laptopJan 30, 2011
By Carlos M Lopez
This drive is insanely fast, the loading times for W7 and apps are outstanding, a hard disk, no chance here. Let me give you some details of my experience:
-I have a brand new Toshiba Portege R705P41, 4G RAM, 500G HD, W7 x64. The Windows index for this config was 5.8 on disk data transfer rate, with 7.9 as maximum score.
-The SSDSA2MJ080G2C1 came with the last firmware (02HD) so no need to upgrade it.
-The X25M on my Toshiba increased the disk index to 7.7, just awesome!
-From power on to a ready desktop the system takes almost 20 secs.
-I put the laptop's HDD on an USB external enclosure.
-I leave on the SSD the priority files, the rest goes to the external drive (pics, movies, music, docs)
Now, some tips to follow to get the best of the X25M drive:
-Download the Intel SSD Toolbox and set the optimizer to run once at week.
-Do not use disk defragmentation on the SSD.
In order to keep the writes cicles as low as possible, I disabled some features:
-The system Write Caching, there is no cache on the SSD.
-The cache on disk of the web browser.
-The page file, but if you want to have it then set it to a low size.
-The system restore.
-The hibernation.
-Avoid to do any intense benchmark on it.
-Do not use the Drive Wiper feature of CCleaner.
With all these steps, I hope the drive has an increase on the performance and its life span.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An excellent buy if you have the money and are willingJan 21, 2011
By Prakash Srinivasan
"I loves me some Amazon!!"
I have this device running Fedora Core 14 with EXT4 Filesystem. It works just great, all you need is a SATA slot. here's a nice pdf to decode and simplify that crazy looking product code so you know what you're buying: [...]
You get some of the older generations with the same capacity for lesser but look identical to the new gen. That pdf should help you see what you're missing / gaining.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
PerfectMay 31, 2011
By Raster
Installed this drive on my Ubuntu desktop machine as the primary boot/OS drive. Has worked flawlessly since installation 4 weeks ago. Operations are faster with this than with my RAID 5 setup (using 7200 RPM Barracudas).
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