[Brian]

Intel’s X25-M SSD is the current industry standard holding the title as one of the best flash storage drives money can buy. Last year Intel made their best drive even better by decreasing the flash manufacturing process from 50nm to 34nm, substantially reducing the cost of the SSD and making the X25-M even more affordable for consumers. Read our full review to see how well the 160GB Intel X25-M performed in our tests.

Full Review

[continuum]

Could you add a side-by-side comparison chart of power consumption with other tested SSDs?

[Brian]

We've thought about that but the chart gets huge...any other ideas on how to better present those comps? We could link to a chart outside the review with all the SSDs on it.

[Lamb0]

Small wonder I've been recommending the Intel X25-MG2s to those few friends who've considered SSDs. Usually, it's too easy to be penny wise and pound foolish. Fortunately my friends chose to get the good stuff, or $ave until they can afford it!

[continuum]

Well, you could simplify the side-by-side chart with just idle and one type of peak power consumption number. With power draw of SSD's so low (relatively speaking) some additional information could be omitted for brevity's sake.

[Brian]

It is an iterative process, we'll see what we can do to continue to make the reviews better.

[thedriver]

Seeing as the 80GB drives are almost exactly half the price of the 160GB model, it would be interesting to see the 80GBs in RAID0 and see how they compare to the 160GB drive on it's own.

[Brian]

Great point. We're expecting Intel to deliver another 80GB for the RAID 0 and RAID 1 testing soon...though we don't yet have the 160GB. Take a look at the tests we posted today for the VelociRaptor RAID 0...I'd guess you'd see a similar boost out of the SSD, in terms of relative gain.

[okashira]

Did you do this review with a laptop? Which one?

[Brian]

No, we have a standard testbed sot eh benchmarks are always the same...it's a desktop.

Is there a notebook specific question you have?