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Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA 80GB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive | 
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| Brand: Intel
Category: CE
List Price: $635.99
Buy New: $499.95
You Save: $136.04 (21%)
New (19) Used (1) from $499.95
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1195
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 70.8 x 51.6 x 9.6
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: SSDSA2MH080G1C5
Model: SSDSA2MH080G1C5
UPC: 735858203869
EAN: 0735858203869
ASIN: B001F4YIYY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 80GB X25M MAINSTREAM SSD DRIVE | | • | SATA 2.5IN F/ MLC FLASH TECHNOLOGY |
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Product Description
The Intel X25-M SATA Solid State Drive (SSD) delivers leading performance in industry standard 2.5" form factor while simultaneously improving system responsiveness for mobile applications over standard rotating drive media or hard disk drives. By combining Intel's leading NAND flash memory technology with the innovative high performance controller, Intel delivers an SSD for native Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk drive drop-in replacement with enhanced performance, reliability, ruggedness and power savings.Since there are no rotating platters, moving heads, fragile actuators, or unnecessary delays due to spin-up time or positional seek time that can slow down the storage subsystem significantly, the Intel X25-M SATA SSD enables fast read/write access times and a significant I/O and throughput performance improvement as compared to rotating media or hard disk drives.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Now that's what I want from SSD! January 9, 2009
J Stone (NJ USA)
After spending $495 on Patriot 128G and having huge disappointment, I was ready to go back to traditional hard drive and get the new 2.5" Western Digital Velociraptor. But then this Intel SSD was getting such a great review so I decided to try SSD one more time.
Using Patriot SSD, I could not notice XP loading any faster, and running any applications was slow at all time. And any big file would be very very slow. During my typical work day, I have to be in and out of Outlook many times but any time I go to Outlook it hangs for 20 sec. or more. After I use this drive for 2 months I finally gave up.
One the contrary, Intel SSD is fast and I see no hangs or freezes. I think this one performs what the SSD meant to be perform. At 80G it is a bit small but I think it is worth it.
An amazing improvement in computer speed December 21, 2008
Patrick F. Mahoney (Fort Collins, CO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say that this is undoubtably the most amazing improvement that I've made in my system in as long as I can remember. The only thing that I can remember like this is the time that I bought a 3Dfx Voodoo 3D card and used it to play my first 3D accelerated game.
Vista 64 boots to the desktop in ~22 seconds from the "press any key to boot from CD" until the desktop appears. And the system is immediately responsive when the desktop appears - you can click on things and they come right up as if Vista's not busy loading a whole lot of stuff. The drive is absolutely quiet - which is a bit weird actually - but weird in a nice way. It's completely cool - in fact, it's made out of metal that feels like thick brushed aluminum and it feels cold to the touch. I'm a gamer and Warhammer launches in literally half the time that it used to and the loading sequences between zones feels much faster than it used to. Everything feels much faster than it used to. Even little programs like iTunes, and Firefox that never felt particularly slow feel like they are way faster to load and come up.
I'm upgrading from a Hitatchi 1TB Deskstar - I presume if I had a WD Raptor or Velociraptor, or some RAID0 setup that I wouldn't be so impressed. But coming off of a fairly fast single 7200rpm 1TB drive, this drive is a massive improvement
On the negatives, well, 80GB is pretty small. I had a hard time fitting my Vista Ultimate 64 directory tree, my Program Files and Program Files (x86) directories onto it with room to spare for a couple of my favorite games. I have about 7GB free. And there's still a bunch of games that are left on my "old" 1TB drive. It's supposed to be low power - but 80GB is too little for me to actually use (my photo library alone is 300GB.. the problem of RAW mode and a DSLR), so I have to keep my 1TB drive plugged in. So about the best that I can say is that it probably doesn't add a lot more power to my system. It's also extremely expensive for the capacity you get.
But aside from the small capacity and the cringingly high retail price, I am amazed at what a difference it made in my computer..
Most compelling upgrade ever December 13, 2008
Dave
I've been building computers for years. Usually a memory or CPU upgrade is noticable in benchmarks but often doesn't have the WOW effect in real life. Well the Intel X25 creates a huge WOW effect!!
Vista loads in a few seconds and apps are almost instant. And this is relative to a 10,000 RPM WD Raptor.
Use the X25 for apps and OS and then put all your large media in a hard drive.
This thing's analogous to what you see going from dial up to broadband!!
One of the best SSD on the market December 11, 2008
C. Kidkul (St. Louis, MO)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Purchased this drive to go in my Lenovo Ideapad U330. The performance is awesome. The drive is silent since there's no moving parts. Using a SSD also decrease the heat output and energy usage also. The computer is much cooler and uses less energy than before, thus longer battery life. Before this, I had also purchased an OCZ Core 64GB SSD to use in my new Lenovo at $280. That drive, the OCZ Core, was horrible, the performance on HD Tach was 130MB/sec which is good, but it wasn't the benchmark performance that was bad, it was real world use. To use the OCZ drive as a primary OS drive was impossible. It was plague with stops and stutters. Most of the good reviews about how SSD was so fast are from users using an SLC (single level cell) drive. Usually an OCZ SSD or a G.Skill SSD in a sivler case both of which are a rebranded Samsung drive.
This Intel drive is a MLC (multi level cell) drive but intel developed a new technology on how the drive is read and write so it does not suffer from stutters like other MLC drive. This drive performance on HD Tach was equivalent to a RAID (0): SATA WD Raptor 74GB drive at 10,000 rpm. The benchmark on the Intel: Burst speed: 194.4 MB/sec, Average read: 114.3 MB/sec, Random Access: 0.3ms. The benchmark on the Raptor was Burst speed: 197.9 MB/sec, Average read: 110.6 MB/sec and Random Access: 8.6ms. As you can see this drive improves laptop performace by quite a bit. Worth every penny.
FAST November 2, 2008
A. Ven (Portland, OR, USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
My laptop now feels like it's 3 generations newer....
the only sad part is that I know I can now NEVER go back to rotating storage... just like you can't go back to dailup after having used DSL for a while.
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