Intel is one of the world's leading manufacturers of solid state drives (SSDs) and NAND flash memory chips - the very foundation of solid state drives and USB flash drives. They currently offer three lines of solid state drives : Intel X25-E Extreme SSDs - Extreme performance and reliability for servers, storage and workstations Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDs - High-performance 2.5" SSDs for laptops Intel X18-M Mainstream SSDs - High-performance 1.8" SSDs for netbooks The Intel Mainstream series of 2.5" SSDs feature a native SATA interface with support for Native Command Queueing (up to 32 concurrent operations ), and an advanced architecture that employs 10 parallel NAND flash channels to deliver very fast transfer rates while utilizing multi-level cell NAND flash memory to reduce cost and increase storage capacity. To improve reliability, these mainstream SSDs use a proprietary write-leveling algorithm to spread the writes over the entire drive. There are actually two variants of the X25-M mainstream SSD - the first-generation X25-M which is based on 50 nm NAND flash memory, and the second-generation X25-M based on 34 nm NAND flash memory. Today, we will be taking a look at the first-generation X25-M mainstream SSD, one with a storage capacity of 80 GB. Link : Intel 80 GB X25-M (50 nm) Solid State Drive Review
Oh... didn't know they have X18-M model. Is this the second revision of X25-M? I just noticed something lacking the review, there's no sequential write speed test.
No, this is the first gen but it's supposed to be as fast as the second-gen which is based on 34 nm NAND flash. Sequential write? Yes there is - in the IO Meter results. The sequential write (and read) results are in red.
No, it doesn't. HD Tach can do that, but unfortunately, HD Tach cannot run on Windows Vista. So we can only test using IO Meter.
