Intel X25M 80GB Mainstream Solid State Drive Retail Boxed SSDSA2MH080G2R5
Jan 07, 2010 in
Computers & Software
- With no moving parts, Intel SSDs offer a quiet storage solution that responds quickly and uses less power
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Intel X25M 80GB Mainstream Solid State Drive – Gen2, MLC flash technology, 2.5-Inch form factor, SATA (3.0Gb/s), 9.5mm Retail Box. Postville…. More >>
Intel X25M 80GB Mainstream Solid State Drive Retail Boxed SSDSA2MH080G2R5
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5 comments
C. N. on January 7, 2010 at 5:28 pm
i’m sure it’s a good drive but i think there’s some price gouging going on here as it was over $100 less just a couple of days ago.
Zha93 on January 7, 2010 at 7:10 pm
i’ve tried many different SSD drives ALL of the had the same problems. Intel’s works and works right. Very happy! If you are looking for a good, cheap SSD get this one!!
J. MacInnes on January 7, 2010 at 10:00 pm
This hard drive is very quick and very quiet. Installation was an ease on Windows 7.0. I’ve been using it for a few weeks with no problems and my computer is running better than ever. One word of advice: if you are installing into a 3.5″ bay, you do not need to buy a converter for this 2.5″ drive. The drive comes with a mounting tray that does the job just fine. Getting an additional converter is a waste of money.
On my machine, the windows experience index rates my hard-drive as a 7.4 (out of 7.9).
IIIMik3 on January 8, 2010 at 12:48 am
this drive is absolutely awesome! it’s a little pricey, but hey you gotta pay to play, especially on fairly new technology such as SSDs. This thing just screams, and my i7 windows 7 system is amazingly responsive. Photoshop opens in 4 seconds! Love this drive.
Margie Mcbride on January 8, 2010 at 2:21 am
I bought this for my work laptop (Lenovo X200) and after a month of usage the results are better than expected. After using Norton Ghost to migrate my current XP OS (corporate standard) to the new drive, I was amazed how fast applications launch. Outlook (with 4500 items in my inbox) takes a 2-3 seconds first time and less than a second for subsequent starts.
Probably the most noticeable improvement for me is starting and running virtual machines. One VM that we clone/share for developers took forever to start and was flaky before I installed the SSD. I’ve been running it for weeks on the SSD and it’s very responsive and stable. The startup time went from >20 minutes on the mechanical 7200 RPM drive to well under 5 min on the SSD. This is a Windows 2003 Server R2 OS with a large enterprise application (15 services) running under VMWare Player on a laptop. Eclipse, Perforce and the rest of the dev tools run like a champ.
The laptop was already very quite, but now it’s completely silent. Almost errie, but something I’m happy to get used to. I don’t reboot my laptop too often, so I’m not noticing any big gain on that side of things; but it does seem quite a bit faster. The corporate virus scanner and other services installed by IT still make it too painful, but that’s another story.
All in all, it’s the best $260 I’ve ever spent on computer equipment.