Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition

theraindog writes "Intel is entering the storage market with an ambitious X25-M solid-state drive capable of 250MB/s sustained reads and 70MB/s writes. The drive is so fast that it employs Native Command Queuing (originally designed to hide mechanical hard drive latency) to compensate for latency the SSD encounters in host systems. But how fast is the drive in the real world? The Tech Report has an in-depth review comparing the X25-M's performance and power consumption with that of the fastest desktop, mobile, and solid-state drives on the market."

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Re:Blows doors off? I call bullshit.

[Gat0r30y]

The read times are impressive - how impressive? I suspect almost nobody finds room for one of these in a machine that isn't just reading from disc. The metrics for write performance simply don't match the price tag. Also

According to Intel, its SSDs are so fast that NCQ helps to compensate for latency encountered in the host PC

NCQ? Really? Because the Host PC is too slow? I really don't buy that.