Intel X25-M SSDSA2MH160G2K5 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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This is my second Intel SSD I have purchased in the past year. I also have purchased two Sandforce-primarily based SSDs which have either failed on me or degraded. The Intel controller is just... steady. The 1st a single I purchased earlier in the year was a 40 GB SSD for my Toshiba netbook that I run a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu Netbook Remix on - and it's fantastic. The 40 GB SSD made that Atom-powered puny thing into one thing similar to a standard-sized notebook in terms of speed for fundamental applications.This item? No brainer. I installed it in my Sager NP8690 as the major drive following the two failed Sandforce SSDs. Runs... magnificent. Unless you are undertaking a ton of information transfers or higher-capacity copying, this SSD is ideal for a person that's just hunting to speed up the most "commonly utilised" applications for mainstream users. No Cons for Newegg. Newegg has usually been, and at this rate, often will be my implies of acquiring. Items are speedy, dependable, normally totally free (or low priced) and tech support and consumer service are second to none.The only subtraction of an egg is due to the fact of Intel's current pricing points of their SSDs compared to the competition. In the words of the fantastic Keyshawn Johnson... "C'Mon... MAN!" In the globe of Laptop technologies, Intel is king, and they know it (and cost accordingly) Some individuals favor Sandforce. I've heard that when operating Mac OS that SF-controllers are helpful as Mac lacks TRIM assistance - But once more, to me that's hearsay. I've always been a Computer/Linux guy and I'm not familiar with the Mac OS. So don't quote me or kill me if I'm wrong.I had one out of the box failure with a Sandforce SSD, and a single that just had a ridiculous speed slowdown, in spite of all feasible tricks I had up my sleeve. I'm not a personal computer qualified - far from it, but I consider myself quite nicely-versed in laptop technologies, and some individuals swear by SandForce. But I believe that for the average, mainstream user searching to kick new life into an older laptop with as a lot memory as attainable - this is the model to get.ALSO - Intel is coming out with 3rd Gen SSDs in early 2011. Now may possibly be the time to get one of these before the Intel price points replace the 2nd Gen and gouge people as soon as once more. Sub-Prime loan anyone?

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Performance is appropriate on-par with two old raptors I have operating in a Raid (Stripe) array.Technique seems stable so far as nicely. None but! There may well be quicker SSD drives out there... but albeit they sacrifice stability for that extra increase of functionality.

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OCZ (Intel's closest competitor) boasts faster SSD's for significantly less cash. Right after getting owned the Vertex 2, I can attest that OCZ SSD's are rapid and do expense significantly less than Intel SSD's. But the challenge with OCZ has always been reliability, which is Intels strength. The OCZ drive crashed 2 to 3 occasions daily with BSOD's (Blue Screens). So I managed to uncover an under 跌 deal on the Intel X25 160GB and after months of use it has never ever crashed or given even a hint of trouble. It's also just as rapid as the OCZ in real life performance. Numerous claim that value is a con, but the old adage rings accurate right here: you really do get what you pay for. There may well be other brands like Critical or Corsair that can provide comparable reliability to Intel. I personally only have hands on experience with OCZ & Intel.

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quickly. value. worth it in my mind. I may upgrade to a strong state drive with a 6gps transfer rate when the prices drop later, but I actually don't want to reinstall windows.

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First, enable me to say that what everybody else has stated has been said for very good cause. I lastly took the plunge on a single of these right immediately after Christmas 2009 and so far been operating it for a year and 4 months devoid of a single challenge. What can I mentioned that's not been stated? I place this drive into an older Dell XPS 410 technique (though I did transform out the normal C2D processor with a Quad Q6600). Compared to even a Western Digital Velociraptor (the older 150GB style), this SSD just screams. Thoughts you, a single purpose I did purchase it was to assist with photo editing and on that lone regard, I've completed sufficient benchmarking with it to realize that the SSD alone was not taking any time off the exporting of say, hundreds of RAWs from the 21MP Canon 5D Mark II. What it did though was permit my rapidly raptor to serve as a working drive (compared to a single image-storing + operating drive) setup I had ahead of. This in actuality, sped the approach up much more although. Booting / loading advantages as well :) NONE! I mean one particular may possibly say price but this is new tech - but in this case I will readily say you get what you spend for. Ok a con then... It's quickly sufficient that every thing is now CPU-bound! I'll need to have a more quickly / much more highly effective CPU now, which signifies a new PSU and board, which indicates I have to ditch this BTX case... There goes a couple of bucks (sigh). To continue with my good thoughts, this drive has performed so far precisely as specified. 𞴌MB/sec reads and about 𞲞MB/sec writes. More than the past 6 months, the Intel SSD Toolbox shows about 2.7 TB written to the drive (Win 7 x64 Pro cloned set up + moderate but careful use as to what gets written on the SSD) and drive life is nonetheless 99+%. Proof that even seemingly heavier use nonetheless permits these drives to age extremely well. Updating to the latest firmware is very encouraged (though mine did not have issues at all from a new retail kit box). Cloned my Raptor installation (about 115GB employed of 139GB) completely fine on the first attempt and it's been smooth sailing because. Attempted Win7 fresh install as well - only 20 minutes. WOW Will repeat my Raptor / SSD Benchmark now on the SR--two board. Updated time to a year and four months devoid of problem *knocks on wood*. Just, steady.

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Fairly fast and low power consumption, which is significant for a laptop installation such as mine. None

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Good REBATE ๠ for IntelLeopard Snow set up on 35 Minutes.Mac Book Pro 13" detect fine the SSD. NAIntel take บ for make your rebate fast. Value nevertheless High, but I get Intel because I prepared have two of 80G SSD on my Computer on Raid 1 and Function Ideal.

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Low Power, High Efficiency, largest-capacity SSD available from Intel appropriate now. Absolutely nothing larger presently obtainable form Intel. This is the similar as the other 160GB SSD from Intel, except that this is the "pretty box" versions, meaning that it comes in a great retail box with some extras. Why this item is lower price than the drive by itself is beyond me, but I'll take it. Personally, I would've bought the OEM box version if it was lower price tag, but it just turned out that this was less costly.

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My Intel 160 GB MLC SATA II Solid State Drive is quite quickly, quiet, cool, and reliable. Owners can download the Intel SSD Toolkit and Data Migration Software program powered by Acronis for totally free to examine and sustain the SSD along with cloning a drive. It comes with a limited 3 year warranty. There are firmware updates which do not require owners to destroy the information on the SSD to perform the upgrades. It is not the fastest solid state drive on the market place, but it is one particular of the most trustworthy. The expense is high priced per gigabyte of information storage capacity. I was going to obtain the ADATA S599 128 GB SATA II Solid State Drive for 赧.99 USD from a competitor, but there are reliability difficulties when owners place their computers on standby or sleep and attempt to awaken their computers. I own an ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook Pc so this would be a huge problem. Firmware updates have not but resolved this concern and they demand the information to be destroyed for every upgrade. These two aspects made it a show stopper for me.

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Comes with five.25 bay tray and great quality SATA cables with pressure connectors.Windows 7 Efficiency Index for the drives was 7.8 Still too high priced.

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: I was going to buy the ADATA S599 128 GB SATA II Solid State Drive for $199.99 USD from a competitor, but there are reliability problems when owners put their computers on standby or sleep and try to awaken their computers. I own an ASUS N61JV-X2 notebook PC so this would be a big problem. Firmware updates have not yet resolved this issue and they require the data to be destroyed for each upgrade. These two factors made it a show stopper for me

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Holy crap this thing is fast. Solid state is definitely becoming more mainstream now. I can boot Win 7 in about 9 seconds and I never have to worry about damaging the drive because it doesn't have any moving parts.

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Not much to say other than its fast reliable and able to boot win 7 ult on 12 gb of 2000mhz (oc'd to 2056) in about 8 seconds. IM LOVING IT