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."

Comments

Re:Well, a step in the right direction

[tempest69]

A step in the right direction, but at $600 per 1000 I am gonna wait a bit longer before jumping on the SSD bandwagon.

By my reconning thats $0.60 per drive.. heck a few buddies and I could pitch in, and all go to raid heaven, with enough ssd's to spare to use as high tech nick-nacks..

How damn low does it have to go for you?

Storm

Re:but is it fast enough

[Anonymous Coward]

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. There is no Redundant part in aid 0. You can ofcourse have multiple aid 0s in mirrored configuration so you have raid instead of aids.