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Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD

Posted by kdawson on from the bragging-rights dept.

theraindog writes "We've already seen Intel's first X25-M solid-state drive blow the doors off the competition, and now there's a new X25-E Extreme model that's even faster. This latest drive reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s, and offers ten times the lifespan of its predecessor, all while retaining Intel's wicked-fast storage controller and crafty Native Command Queuing support. The Extreme isn't cheap, of course, but The Tech Report's in-depth review of the drive suggests that if you consider its cost in terms of performance, the X25-E actually represents good value for demanding multi-user environments."

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  1. Re:Good price, actually. by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yup, and it uses SLC chips so it has an enormously long lifetime, around 70 years according to Intel.

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  2. Re:It's not about speed to me by elashish14 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nevermind. "Even with 100GB of write-erase per day, it'll take more than 72 years to burn through the drive." I should RTFA. But still, much room for improvement.

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  3. Re:proper comparison? by cheater512 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do a test based on price.

    $x,xxx worth of SAS/SCSI disks vs $x,xxx worth of SSD drives.

    See which is faster then.
    Thats the most realistic benchmark (for people without infinitely deep pockets).

  4. Re:Good price, actually. by dougisfunny · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since you seem to know about this, how long would a normal Disk last in that environment?

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  5. Re:SLC too! by troll8901 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With RAID-5 reaching its limits for magnetic media, a rack of these could be a viable replacement.

    * bracing self for long discussion on RAID levels, file systems, and a certain Unix OS *

  6. Re:Question for slashdotters: by MoogMan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A *much* better failure model than HDDs forgetting about data on dodgy sectors etc.

  7. Performance crown and new-school math by bconway · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We've already seen Intel's first X25-M solid-state drive blow the doors of the competition, and now there's a new X25-E Extreme model that's even faster. This latest drive reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s

    Yet, 5 articles down the Slashdot homepage, options depending:

    Samsung said it's now mass producing a 256GB solid state disk that it says has sequential read/write rates of 220MB/sec and 200/MBsec, respectively.

    I'm pretty sure the improved write speeds is the part that people are interested in with SSDs these days.

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