Testseek.co.uk have collected 65 expert reviews of the Intel 2.5 inch X25-M G2 Series SATA300 and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel 2.5 inch X25-M G2 Series SATA300.
September 2010
(88%)
65 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(92%)
1041 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
88010065
The editors liked
Great read throughput
Great random performance results
Proven long term performance
Pluses
Excellent performance in all cases
Comes with a 3.5 inch adaptor to mount it on bays reserved for HDDs
We recently upgraded our storage test system with a SATA 6Gb/s controller and Windows 7 to accommodate the TRIM feature and upcoming SATA 6Gb/s drives. Soon, we’ll be providing a new charts category that lists all of our 2010 SSD tests. This article in...
If this review has showed us one thing, it is that fast sequential transfer speeds aren’t important in the whole scheme of things. Out of the four SSDs we tested the Intel X25-M had the slowest sequential write speeds by far. This changed when we shif...
Abstract: Those keeping track of the SSD evolution know that Intel’s SSD product have set a high standard for others to follow and try to keep up with. Their X25-M series features 10 controllers and has ruled the performance charts for everything but sequential ...
The good news is that none of the 12 SSDs we reviewed left a bad impression. Only one product, the Cavalry Pelican SSD, failed to reach the performance level we’d expect from modern drives (200+ MB/s reads for desktop/mobile type SSDs). Every other...
Abstract: August 27, 2009 Intel made a lot of noise when it arrived on the SSD market in September 2008. With an ultra-high performance 10 channel controller, very effective wear levelling and limitation of writes on memory blocks, the Santa Clara giant had com...
Intels tick-tock approach to processor development delivers new architectures on each tock and then shrinks them to finer process technologies with each tick. This philosophy now appears to be influencing the companys solid-state drives. The second-g...
The Intel X25-M 160GB G2 Solid-State Drive is the real deal and is ideal for mainstream computers that will be making the move to Windows 7 when it comes out in October 2009. ...
Excellent Performance, 34nm NAND Flash, Lower Cost Per GB, Random Write Performance
Price Per GB High In Comparison to Hard Drives, Sustained Writes Lower Than Competing Offerings
The second generation Intel 34nm X25-M SSD showed it was marginally faster in traditional application performance tests like PCMark Vantage but was significantly faster in our synthetic tests like IOmeter and ATTO, where it offered performance gains o...
Abstract: Be sure to read our latest SSD article: The SSD Relapse for an updated look at the SSD market.Earlier today the FedEx man dropped off a box with this in it:That's the new X25-M G2 I wrote about yesterday, which features a slightly improved controller ...
