Intel Responds To X25-M Fragmentation Issue

Vigile writes "In mid-February, news broke about a potential issue with Intel's X25-M mainstream solid state drives involving fragmentation and performance slow-downs. At that time, after having the news picked up by everyone from CNet to the Wall Street Journal, Intel stated that it had not seen any of these issues but was working with the source to replicate the problem and find a fix if at all possible. Today Intel has essentially admitted to the problem by releasing a new firmware for the X25-M line that not only fixes the flaws found in the drive initially, but also increases write performance across the board."

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In Other News..

[TechyImmigrant]

In other news, Microsoft has responded to reports that Windows Vista is slow, buggy, insecure and horribly bloated by releasing DOS 3.2

Fragmentation issue?

[GuldKalle]

At first I read fragmentation as in "frag grenade".
Guess I've been playing too many violent games. Oh, that reminds me - tax reports are due tomorrow, right?

Re:Good for them

[drinkypoo]

So, good job Intel for fixing it, but patting them on the back for admitting a problem [on a tiny user base] that was easily fixed is a delusion.

You're inferring things from my post that aren't implied. What I'm saying is that intel is perhaps no longer pure, concentrated evil -- not that I want to go start sucking dicks in the executive washroom.