Intel to Ship Value-Based X25-X SSD in Q4

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Let's see ... more expensive (per GB) and lower performance. No thanks.

In defense of the other Intel drives, 7200 RPM drives in a RAID setup don't even begin to compare to the performance of the X25-M. You have to see the performance to believe it.

Example: I can launch Firefox, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and other apps in sequence and each app is up and running in less time than it takes to select the next app.
 
I will try to say something that others have not said and not include my opinion.

Some say you can use this for a boot drive, I just want to add that "boot drive" will also contain all of your programs, not just the OS. This may work for some people and not for others. In an office, a 40GB drive is fine when data is stored on a network. For someone that just surfs the web at home - this works well too. For software developers, this size may be too small to hold all development tools. Anyone that installs a lot of big programs may feel 40GB is too cramped. I would say the target audience is limited, but is not for "power users". Also, the price of $160 may seem high but if you do not need more than 40GB then $160 for a performance boost may not be that bad.
 
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woah! Don't buy that! It has the single JMicron controller that is prone to stutter (aka incredibly bad random write speeds.)
 
the value SSD will provide reading speeds of up to 170 MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 40 MB/sec. The drive is poised to be priced under $160.

will arrive as a 2.5-inch MLC drive with an earnest 40 GB capacity.
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WTF is this shit Intel. That ain't cheaper. The 80GB X25-M is like $240 and owns this thing on speed.
 
[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]WTF is this shit Intel. That ain't cheaper. The 80GB X25-M is like $240 and owns this thing on speed.[/citation]
It is "cheaper," in that you can buy one of these drives for less money than the other. It's not really looking like a better value, though.

[citation][nom]master exon[/nom]40GB of ready-boost? Are you...?[/citation]
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!"
 
to slow for write speed. Id rather get a 10,000rpm drive for $200-250 still for the master drive. I was waiting for this to be at least 80gb or for the real successor to SSD 1.0. Im waiting until next year for true SSD2.0's or for these older ones price to drop $100 that will be cheaper and with at least 250mb/sec read and 70/sec write.
 
KIDs go to sleep. Your standart PC for games and stuff is not the market for SSD's yet.
For serious buyiers as buisness servers, SSD would be nice choice, but this Intel X series really sucks. Although speeds are OK, but having in mind, that decent Intel 25-M offers the best price/performance for web/database server application. compare the speeds of new X series and M, and you'll find that this new series is good, but nothing new.
 
Headline in the near future....

Value-Based SSD - Even Cheaper than the X25-X!

Then you read the article and find out you would be paying $20 for a 1gb SSD.


Seriously, I read the article title and thought that it would be a step in the right direction for SSD prices, but it turns out they just lower the space as well as the price.
 
Pfftt.... I bought two NIB x-25ms gen 1 for 185 a piece on ebay. This latest offering is an insult.

Sure the random access times make it a great boot drive, but geez man, intel what gives?
 
I could actually put a 40GB SSD to good use, but the performance drop is a freaking lot... Think I'll keep waiting on cheaper 80GB drives.
 
We are all just gonna have to wait a bit longer. I'm assuming the costs for SSD's are still high are because A)Still somewhat "new" technology and B)It may still be more expensive to manufacture than standard HDD's.

Give it another year or two and hopefully SSD's pricing will drop to more economical rates, especially considering the times at this moment.

Plus does it really matter? I mean, if I'm not mistaken, current OS's (except for server specific OS's) aren't really made for these things. Doing some research it seems like a lot of settings need to be adjusted when using these babies for home use (disabling paging file, super fetch, defrag, etc).

So maybe when the next OS's from MS and Apple come out, hopefully they will have these new drives in mind...
 
thanks to certain e-tailer that has been selling the x-25 g2 80gb and 160gb like hot cakes at $299 and $609 and shows intel that people's willingness to pay is at $4/gb.
 
[citation][nom]ubernoobie[/nom]wow 40mb/s read, no thanks[/citation]
where the hell did you get 40mb/s read out of that?

but nonetheless, id rather get a nice velociraptor hdd
 
The price was exiting until the capacity was mentioned...Looks like I (and many others) will have to continue to play the waiting game.
 
When will people realize that you don't buy a SSD for the amount of space it has on it? You buy it to put the OS on, and them maybe a few other apps that are HDD intensive. You don't need 80 gigs for an OS drive. 40 is fine. I'm so sick of seeing the comparison of SSD's to HDDs.
 
I concur with a lot of the opinions already posted. For my use, 40GB is just too small. I like my Velociraptor because it gives a bit of a performance increase (at least over your standard 7200rpm drive) and it comes with 300GB of space. 40GB just isn't doing it right now, especially for the price. By this time next year, hopefully there will be some new SSD's on the market that are cheaper, bigger, and offer somewhat comparable performance to top end SSD's.
 
I think true read and write speeds are depending on the IOPS we can get out of those devices!
At 40MB/s but with decent IOPS, I'm sure it'll do just fine as a laptop replacement HD.
Hopefully they are Sata/Sata2 compatible!
I did hope that for 160, I'd get a 64Gb SSD, with write speeds around 50 or 60MB/s!
Readspeeds of 170MB/s are better than I had expected though!
Many netbooks and laptops have got a limit of about 60MB/s data transfer from and to the HD anyways.
 
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