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Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Review
HotHardware
- Conclusion: Looking at the direct competitors like the OCZ Vertex and Corsair SSDs we tested today, the new Intel X25-M stacks up very well in terms of performance and price, making
- Pros: Excellent Performance, 34nm NAND Flash, Lower Cost Per GB, Random Write Performance
- Cons: Price Per GB High In Comparison to Hard Drives, Sustained Writes Lower Than Competing Offerings
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Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
AnandTech
- Excerpt: The promise of Hybrid HDDs has come and gone with no champion. Today Seagate is announcing its Momentus XT, a 2.5" 7200 RPM notebook drive (9mm form factor) with 4GB of SLC NAND on board used as a read cache for frequently accessed data. The end result is a notebook drive with notebook power characteristics that performs like a 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor.
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OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD
Benchmark Reviews
- Conclusion: IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these
- Pros: Delivers approximately 120,000 4K IOPS in Iometer, Best IOPS performance available to consumers, Blazing fast 831/688 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, DuraWrite techno...
- Cons: SiI3124 RAID controller lacks NCQ, SMART, and TRIM pass-through
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Intel 160GB X25-M SSD
ITP.net
- Summary: When Intel launched its first generation X25-M SSDs last year, they were a hit with performance seekers thanks to their awesome performance.
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Intel X25-M
CD Freaks
- Conclusion: Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points below: The main positive points: The Intel X25-M series drives are good in fact, extremely good.
- Pros: Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable., Excellent reading performance., Outstanding 4K random I/O performance, Excellent multitasking potentia...
- Cons: Expensive., Slow sequential writing speed.
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