Intel Ships X25-V 40GB Value SSDs Worldwide

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[citation][nom]tomtompiper[/nom]Those complaining about the size are missing the point, and are also thinking in a distinctly Microsoft centric way. This SSD would easily hold a full Linux or BSD distro including all of the programs you would ever need and still have room to spare. Everything else could go on a normal Hard Drive.[/citation]

Last time I checked, Linux or BSD didn't support TRIM. That means the drives performance will suffer in the long run.
 
For those saying that 40GB is way to small, you have to bear in mind that these drives are meant for boot and applications. Windows takes all of 16GB, and if you are not a big power user, the rest of your programs should fit on here. Now...if you want to put all of your HD video files on this so you can edit them with ease, we talk about $5,000++.

These aren't the fastest, so I'd probably recommend the 80GB or 160GB, but the 40GB is still much faster than your conventional hard drive disk.
 
For anyone who does care about useful specifications (Since Tom's doesn't) the drive is capable of random 4KB reads of up to 25000 IOPS and random 4KB writes of up to 2500 IOPS.
 
[citation][nom]vant[/nom]For anyone who does care about useful specifications (Since Tom's doesn't) the drive is capable of random 4KB reads of up to 25000 IOPS and random 4KB writes of up to 2500 IOPS.[/citation]
Linky? Haven't seen any benches yet.... At any rate, random read/writes do count quite a bit for an OS drive.
 
[citation][nom]Shin0bi272[/nom]The first hard drive held 5mb and cos 50,000 bucks in 1956![/citation]

Dude, your point is valid, but you are just making that stuff up.

Winchesters didn't exist until the 1970's. In 1956 a 5 MB drive would have been worth MUCH more than $50K.
 
People have to remember the intel drives do a lot better on random writes than the competition. Sure sequential numbers are lower, but for an OS drive the intel solution is the better one. The other guys advertise their 200+ mb speeds, yet the intel x25-m with it's 70 mbs feels faster. Once your installs are complete sequential writes really don't do anything for you
 
[citation][nom]OvrClkr[/nom]While many of you might think that the latest smartphone must cost alot to produce, you are actually going to be surprised that the parts needed to build the new Android cost a mear 17.38$ w/o the battery. [/citation]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Motorola-Droids-18775-BOM-Costs-Tops-iPhone-Nexus-One-545381/

BOM, which is what counts, for a Droid is still $187.75, and is much more reasonable for price tag that the carrier is charging.

Still agree with your thoughts on the price for the SSDs.
 
I think some might be missing the point. I have this drive so let me explain. For me this was perfect because I wanted to see what all the hype was around an ssd. I got mine for 102bucks and was the perfect price. I always wanted a ssd but was never going to pay the premium for it. 125 bucks is a small price to pay if your like me and just wanted to test out the waters before you jump right in. Its also a small price to pay to have an intel controller cause after research it was the only controller in my eyes that could be trusted.

Its fast and it seems faster than spec cause of the near no access times.
Its perfect for someone to test out the waters. I was going to buy a bigger one but recently weve been spammed with all these new ssd's and Its harder to make a choice.
 
write speeds are too low, People don't use SSD's as purely just to boot faster, they use it ti increase reading and writing performance in their programs. A slow write speed means that you cant have a writing intensive app use the SSD for a scratch disk (these are the apps that need it the most)

while compared to HDD, SSD's with slower overall write speeds will actually write files 4KB and smaller, faster than a HDD but data written to the drives rarely fall into that category.

40GB is enough for the OS and a few basic apps, using as a boot drive is useless as no one whats to spend $129 just to make windows boot 5 seconds faster. the drive is too small to fit the programs that will benefit most from a SSD, and even if they could fit, the poor write speeds will be a bottleneck (people will end up having to use a HDD as a scratch disk instead of the SSD, which means that the app that needs the SSD will only get the benefit of a SSD in terms of launching faster but application performance wont increase.

companies need to get SSD's to at least 100GB and charge less than $100 if they want people to buy them.
 


so basically SSD drives are nothing but for performance freaks cause everybody else thinks its not worth buying this as a boot drive for that much and that small of an increase in boot and load times for a desktop computer
 
I have the drive and am very happy with it. It's not just the boot time, the whole system feels lightning-fast now. For performance details, check http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/654073-intel-x25-v-40gb-review-aeogenia.html

SEQUENTIAL write speed is absolutely irrelevant for a system drive(unless you plan on copying dvd's onto it). What you want is good RANDOM write speed, and the drive performance is very good in that respect. (Not to mention random read speed and access time which are excellent,which is the most 'felt' feature during everyday computer use)
 
[citation][nom]Shin0bi272[/nom]We have to put this price into context. Look at the prices of hard drives over the last 50 years... it's really astounding how cheap things have become (thank you capitalism). The first hard drive held 5mb and cos 50,000 bucks in 1956! Include inflation into that and that would be somewhere around 500,000 now... Granted back then 5mb was a LOT of space to be stored on a platter but relatively speaking thats only a few thousand characters. The issue with the current push for SSD's is that they are relatively expensive for their size. When there's already a technology out there thats larger just not quite as fast and is much cheaper who is going to want something that's barely large enough for their bloated windows OS plus all the updates to it? Specifically compared to these intel SSDs the average 500gb 7200rpm sata hard drive is 12.5X larger, about twice as fast to write to, just under half the price, and (on average), will last much longer. In our society we also value the price/performance crown along with the performance crown. Why do you think so many people buy AMD video cards and cpu's? They are cheaper and perform almost as fast as their Intel/nvidia counterparts (and some times outperform them). Yes there will always be people who just want the fastest thing out there and will spare no expense to have it. Those people are usually the early adopters and they understand that they will pay the price premium for that speed crown. They are an integral part of our economy as well because if they werent around then it would take a lot longer for the prices of new tech to come down. That being said... the very fact that intel is releasing this drive at this price is indicative that the technology is becoming cheaper and that's a great thing. We just need the space on this drive to double and the speed to triple with the price staying the same for it to be a viable option for most people.[/citation]
Cool. I was an early i7 and x58 adopter, can I get a discount on a Gen3 256GB x18-m then?

I do plan on getting a 100GB+ Gen3 Intel SDD though. With that as my boot drive, with a weekly backup, have 4-6 drives in RAID 10 for my storage. =D
 
[citation][nom]...while compared to HDD, SSD's with slower overall write speeds will actually write files 4KB and smaller, faster than a HDD but data written to the drives rarely fall into that category.[/citation]

Ehm... the opposite actually. Very small writes are the majority of writes on a system disk:

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"I’d argue that if you’re a desktop user and you’re using an SSD as a boot/application drive, what will matter most is latency. After you’ve got your machine setup the way you want it, the majority of accesses are going to be sequential reads and random reads/writes of very small file sizes. Things like updating file tables, scanning individual files for viruses, writing your web browser cache..."
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More at http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=16
 


Well I am going by a chart that my sister uses at work . If the Droid is 180.00$ to make, Verizon would not be offering 2 Droids for the price of one at 199.99$ w/ 2 year contract. They would actually be losing around 40% of the initial investment.


 
price wil not going down fast enough on new item..but for 2nd item..
its priced better.
just win a bid for 160GB Gen2 x25-M for just MYR910 ~ 275.300 USD
its the most lucky bid i've won..so far
 
[citation][nom]marraco[/nom]I may buy a pair, but only if have trim support in RAID.[/citation]
Im not sure about these Intel drives, but the newest firmware for Indilinx based OCZ drives (1.5) support garbage collection even on raid arrays. Ive been running the same install for Windows 7 since it was officially released and I formatted and reinstalled last night. Before I reinstalled Windows I booted to an old platter hdd and ran wiper.exe against each drive individually and it completed in just seconds. When I did this back when Windows 7 was just an RC it would take an hour or 2 per drive for wiper to run. Also, before and after the format I benched my system with AS SSD and ATTO and the numbers were virtually identical.
 


You are absolutely correct but 187.75 is the cost of only one unit. When a company orders 1-5 million units the price drops significantly 😉 . The cost of a single 5MP camera for a wireless phone usually costs around 15.00$ per unit, when you buy by the millions that 15.00$ reduces to penny's 😉
 
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