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Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bigger-smaller-deal dept.

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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  1. Oh Yeah? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    My SBDs will blow THEIR doors off.

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    1. Re:Oh Yeah? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's the beauty of it. You will never know!

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    2. Re:Oh Yeah? by Myrddin+Wyllt · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's not pedantry, it's rigour.

      Thank you for taking the time to correct my misuse of a sixty year old acronym in an off-hand quip replying to a fart joke. It is this level of attention to detail which makes slashdot what it is.

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  2. Re:Your SSDs by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those're STDs.

  3. but is it fast enough by kesuki · · Score: 2, Funny

    to run vista, or do you need a RAID array of these drives.

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    1. Re:but is it fast enough by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 2, Funny

      to run vista, or do you need a RAID array of these drives.

      Vista does a lot better with slow hard drives than XP or most other operating systems, thanks to superfetch or whatever silly name they give to the precache of apps.

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  4. Re:Well, a step in the right direction by orkysoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why? They're almost free at 60 cents each :-P

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  5. Damn it intel by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

  6. Re:Blows doors off? I call bullshit. by CaptainPatent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pardon me, but it is "blowing down the doors" (and the house too)

    Yes, the write speeds aren't exactly compelling but for IO and read-heavy uses it's completely mindblowing

    Great, first the doors, then the house and now your mind...

    I guess if there's anything we've learned is this drive really blows.

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  7. Re:where is the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably right next to the dlsyexia tag.

  8. Re:Your SSDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those're STDs.

    It burns when I read/write

  9. Re:Your SSDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a prescription for 500 mg of PCCillin. Take it 3 times a day with meals, avoid alcohol and ganja. Pay the receptionist on the way out. NEXT?!?

  10. Re:Well, a step in the right direction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why? They're almost free at 60 cents each :-P

    Verizon cents.

  11. Re:Your SSDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Surely you mean "I/O".

    (or else you're doing it wrong)

  12. Re:where is the by sexconker · · Score: 5, Funny

    The preferred spelling is lysdexia.

  13. Re:Well, a step in the right direction by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plus RAID-0 ain't all it's cracked up to be. I had a Dell XPS600 with RAID 0 and one of the drives went kaput. Guess what happens to all the other drives then ? They're useless. 4X drives in RAID-0 means you have four times the chance of having a dead weight for a system.

    RAID0: Optimised for failure.