Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @02:40AM from the nice-trim dept.

MojoKid writes "Intel has just released a firmware update for their 34nm Gen X25-M solid state drives that not only boosts sequential write performance, but adds support for the TRIM command as well. A performance optimization tool is also being released today, for users of Windows Vista and XP, who won't be able to take advantage of TRIM. After being flashed with the new firmware update, Intel's 34nm Gen 2 X25-M 160GB drive offered increased performance in a myriad of benchmarks shown here, and sequential write performance was increased on the order of 30%."

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A better write up at anandtech by Zebadias · 2009-10-27 02:44 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667
Re:They still are crap compared to Fusion-io by jandrese · 2009-10-27 02:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

Sure, if you're willing to pay $3500 for the same 80GB that you can get for $350 on the Intel drive you had better expect it to perform faster. It's literally an order of magnitude more expensive!

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