Intel X25-E Reviews?
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I'll take 4!!
You could buy a complete Core i7 rig for the money you would spend on 4 of those drives
Soldato
Crap that's fast. All we need is 250GB one's for about £200 
Fast forward to 2012 then
Fast forward to 2012 then
Crap that's fast. All we need is 250GB one's for about £200
Fast forward to 2012 then
a 250GB version would be perfect for my needs. Main os partition around about 30GB or so in size, and the rest as second partition for installing games into.
Soldato
Intel don't need to drop them in price at the moment (but that's not to say they won't in the distant future). There is no competing product remotely this fast available for a similar price as it stands.
Soldato
I guess this sort of performance should be able to be obtained for a reasonable price in about 6 months time?
Soldato
2009 will definitely be where the SSD market opens up. I think Intel have won it for this year on pure performance.
The only problem with SSDs so far is the amount that have supposedly been released is miles different to what we can actually sell to customers plus the claimed speeds are nowhere near.
The only problem with SSDs so far is the amount that have supposedly been released is miles different to what we can actually sell to customers plus the claimed speeds are nowhere near.
Man of Honour
Oh my god - and to think that these are silent as well!!
Yeah it`s certainly hotting up, I can`t wait.
That second sentance is true aswell as far as most drive makers (or wannabe makers) are concerned. Mtron have always delivered more than the claimed spec however and you can get them right now (even though OCUK don`t stock them)
It seems I always talk about Mtron, I guess that`s because they don`t get the credit they deserve.
I`d love to get hold of one of these intel drives for a few days to see if the extra R/W makes any real world difference over my Mtron drive, the access times are the same so I`m doubtlfull it would for an OS drive.
Feel free to lend me one
That second sentance is true aswell as far as most drive makers (or wannabe makers) are concerned. Mtron have always delivered more than the claimed spec however and you can get them right now (even though OCUK don`t stock them)
It seems I always talk about Mtron, I guess that`s because they don`t get the credit they deserve.
I`d love to get hold of one of these intel drives for a few days to see if the extra R/W makes any real world difference over my Mtron drive, the access times are the same so I`m doubtlfull it would for an OS drive.
Feel free to lend me one
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Soldato
Unless you have money to burn the price/performance delta is just too great, saying that I'd rather have one of these than that silly keyboards with the OLED keys!
Soldato
Agreed, but once these prices come down i think the resulting performance will be much more noticeable than say a CPU upgrade.
Yep, ones these SSDs drives come down to a reasonable price, then i`ll definitely be replacing all my hard drives with them, but until then, it i`ll have to be VelociRaptor i think, as these drives seem to get good comments for fast os boot drive.
Soldato
Less heat, no noise, fast access.... can't wait
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They probably wouldn't be able to get a controller capable of supporting that kind of bandwidth.
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Interesting review here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15931