SSD Review

[ChileanLlama]

A new article posted at Tom's Hardware today.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-x25-m-vertex,review-31671.html

The final scoring is quite debatable, using a %age weighting based on specific benchmarks - which incidentally puts the Intel drives way down the list for general desktop use but top for enterprise/workstation use - and some of the tests and results themselves are questionable, for example why does the Crucial do so well against the OCZ Vertex when other reviews either have them closer or the Vertex just ahead? - but the summaries on each drive are worth spending a few minutes reading.

 

[texitup]

Pretty good to read through. Makes me glad ive got my crucial 225m now

 

[r3loaded]

Pretty good to read through. Makes me glad ive got my crucial 225m now

Yep, I love how high up the M225 comes considering it's the cheapest Indilinx drive available. It probably would have the greatest bang-for-buck ratio.

 

[Zarf]

Their weighting sytem places way too much emphasis on sequential writes, which you will hardly ever care about.

 

[Nate Silvers]

They said the Intels are no longer the best performing SSDs

 

[Nate Silvers]

"Intel’s new 34nm X25-M isn’t very different from preceding drives."

In anadtechs review of SSD they say the G1 is a lot worse over use and goes well into depth why the G2 is much better plus it gets the TRIM command and G1 don't. That toms hard review seems poorly done