*****Intel 34nm SSD In Stock*****

[hedgey]

why are ppl buying this? they are all bugged, intel just recalled em. fools and money I guess.

 

[Fire Wizard]

why are ppl buying this? they are all bugged, intel just recalled em. fools and money I guess.

I'm sorry but if you read up on the firmware issue that the Intel X25-M G2 solid state drives are suffering from, you will understand that this issue isn't really much of a problem, providing you don't do the two things listed below:

***Public Service Announcement***

Intel has informed me of a bug in the X25-M G2 shipping firmware (02G2). This bug is specific to setting a hard drive password in your BIOS. If you have set a BIOS HDD password, then subsequently change or disable that password, the SSD may become inoperable. Intel is correcting the issue in firmware and will be posting a fix shortly. In summary:

* DO NOT set a BIOS HDD password on an X25-M G2.
* If you already have, DO NOT CHANGE OR DISABLE the BIOS HDD password.

It will be safe to do either of the above once the X25-M G2 is flashed to a newer firmware to be released by Intel shortly. Firmware, when available, can be reached by this not-yet-live link.

***End Public Service Announcement***

Intel X25-M 'G2' 34nm 160GB SSD Review

This is just a minor issue which probably won't effect a lot of people anyway.

 

[andy.scott]

Does anyone know how many are due in stock today and if it's sufficient to meet the backorders?

 

[HEADRAT]

I ordered my two 8 minutes after this post, I was hoping to get them today but they are showing "in warehouse queue", I have dropped OcUK a webntoe

 

[andy.scott]

I ordered my two 8 minutes after this post, I was hoping to get them today but they are showing "in warehouse queue", I have dropped OcUK a webntoe

Good plan, I've done the same

 

[HEADRAT]

It's a real pain in the ****, I'm not going to be in Wednesday or Thursday to take the order!

 

[andy.scott]

It's a real pain in the ****, I'm not going to be in Wednesday or Thursday to take the order!

Assumming they ship today...

 

[HEADRAT]

Well I guess I'd like to know why they didn't ship yesterday

 

[ac1d1ty]

Personally I am sad

I said to myself: Im going to splash out before university if the 160gb one is £300.

80Gb is to small for the OS, Adobe suite and a few other programs. 160Gb should do nicely.


-_-

 

[HEADRAT]

Grrrr I've been told they are "out of stock", there was definitely stock when I ordered on Friday evening

HEADRAT

 

[HEADRAT]

Cancelled my order

 

[andy.scott]

Cancelled my order

I've been told they're hoping to get stock today but they didn't say if it was sufficient to fulfill all backorders.

 

[Nate Silvers]

Cancelled my order

Wimp

 

[DrMekon]

Better than Vertex turbo??

Anyone seen any reveiws comparing the vertex turbo and the intel....??

 

[andy.scott]

Better than Vertex turbo??

Anyone seen any reveiws comparing the vertex turbo and the intel....??

Take a peek here:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3607&p=4

Random write is the crucial part but we'll see (if I get one) I guess!

 

[DrMekon]

sequential writes look suprisingly poor when you consider all other results

 

[Nate Silvers]

I don't need writes cause' I won't be writing to it.

 

[DrMekon]

thinking about it, thats a fair point.. from what Ive read sequntial write performance is good for moving large files about.. chances are you wont be writing large files to the ssd..

 

[RSR]

sequential writes look suprisingly poor when you consider all other results

Are you going to be dragging around large files all the time?

 

[RSR]

I don't need writes cause' I won't be writing to it.

Then it has some of the best read speeds on the market from a SSD drive. I not sure how nothing its going to be writen on it though