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The Digital Tigers Advantage
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Awards for Intel SSD (among many)
Outstanding technical reviews"Solid-state disk drives are suddenly everywhere, but many are not much faster than a HDD, some take just as much or more power, and most cost a fortune! Intel took the time to do an outstanding SATA interface on their X18-M, X25-M, and X25-E 1.8- and 2.5-in. SSDs.... We decided to give the Product of the Year Award to all three drives (you try to pick just one). "The real trick here is they have a latency of 85 µs, which gets you 35,000 IOPS (I/O operations per second), 100 times more than a hard-disk drive. This is really good when you are reading lots of small files, which your computer does a lot." —Electronic Products, January 2009"… you certainly get what you pay for with Intel’s new SSD… in many applications, it offers more than 2X the performance of any other MLC solid state disk that we’ve tested to date." —Hot Hardware "Editor’s Choice Award", Sept. 8th, 2008"...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 did an amazing job..." —Tom's Hardware", Sept. 8th, 2008"Within 6 months I'd expect it to be just as important to have one of these [Intel X25] drives in your system, as your boot / application drive, as it was to have Conroe [Intel Core 2 Duo CPU] in your system back in 2006.... This is bigger than Nehalem [Intel's latest CPU architecture for Core i7 processor and Xeon 5500]. "What Intel did with the X25-M is show the world what is possible with MLC flash.... Intel didn't start the SSD revolution but it sure did kick it into high gear." —Anandtech, Sept. 8, 2008 |





