The first reviews of Intel's new SSDs are in

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The reviews are out today. 250Mb read! :cool:

Theres a few reviews about. Try these:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-x25-m-SSD,review-31316.html
http://www.techradar.com/products/computing/components/storage/intel-x25-m-463486/review
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=616
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/storage/intel-x25-m.aspx

A quote from Tomshardware
The question is a good one: how the heck did Intel manage to create a MLC flash SSD that is faster than a high-end SLC product? And why do the drives store 80 GB or 160 GB, while silicon-based chips typically have capacities of 32, 64 and 128 GB? The answer is multi-channel flash. Intel uses its own SATA/300 controller and addresses ten different MLC flash channels at once, using a 16 MB cache memory. It also employs native command queuing (NCQ) to be able to distribute read and write operations across the available channels efficiently.
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For all those who feels NCQ is pointless for SSD's... :p
 
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Well my budget was £300 for a new OS/Apps drive/setup; I'm sure I can come up with another £100 before these are released.
 
Any news if/when OCUK are going to get any in and a price?

I've just got an OCZ SSD V2 but it is duff :mad: so gonna RMA it and look for a different one so these Intel's look very tasty :)
 
To the guys who are posting it's £400.... I know!
My thoughts on SSD's are well documented on this forum so theres nothing else to add other than I agree with you.

But at least with these drives you are finally getting a noticable increase in performance unlike the current generation in the shops :)
 
how long do you think before they come down in price significantly or will there be a cheaper tech come out for them?
 
I just thought I'd add that I do own an SSD (OCZ Core 64GB V1) so I'm not anti SSD at all, but £400 is way over the top for me.
 
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MLC is also the stuff with the lesser write numbers?
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Yeah but even those are getting a lot better and with increasing space there are more chips to write across :)

And in terms of that NCQ thing, it is useless for SSDs in the way we know it, so you cannot use that as an argument. NCQ is just a term describing the strategic queing of reads, it's totally useless in the current sense of the word because the current technology does this to optimize for platters, this is Intels own SSD version of it. Don't take things out of context.
 
nice, i have decided not to go SSD untill my build after the next though, by then it should be a lot cheaper and will have larger sizes and better performance
 
Be great if OS have a option for SSD install that way you select another drive that's used for the constant writing (temp, my docs, net working, pagefile)
 
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