Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition 282
theraindog writes "Intel is entering the storage market with an ambitious X25-M solid-state drive capable of 250MB/s sustained reads and 70MB/s writes. The drive is so fast that it employs Native Command Queuing (originally designed to hide mechanical hard drive latency) to compensate for latency the SSD encounters in host systems. But how fast is the drive in the real world? The Tech Report has an in-depth review comparing the X25-M's performance and power consumption with that of the fastest desktop, mobile, and solid-state drives on the market."
Oh Yeah? (Score:5, Funny)
My SBDs will blow THEIR doors off.
Re:Your SSDs (Score:5, Funny)
Those're STDs.
but is it fast enough (Score:2, Funny)
to run vista, or do you need a RAID array of these drives.
Re:Well, a step in the right direction (Score:5, Funny)
Why? They're almost free at 60 cents each :-P
Damn it intel (Score:5, Funny)
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Re:but is it fast enough (Score:3, Funny)
to run vista, or do you need a RAID array of these drives.
Vista does a lot better with slow hard drives than XP or most other operating systems, thanks to superfetch or whatever silly name they give to the precache of apps.
Re:Oh Yeah? (Score:4, Funny)
That's the beauty of it. You will never know!
Re:Blows doors off? I call bullshit. (Score:5, Funny)
Pardon me, but it is "blowing down the doors" (and the house too)
Yes, the write speeds aren't exactly compelling but for IO and read-heavy uses it's completely mindblowing
Great, first the doors, then the house and now your mind...
I guess if there's anything we've learned is this drive really blows.
Re:where is the (Score:5, Funny)
Probably right next to the dlsyexia tag.
Re:Your SSDs (Score:5, Funny)
Those're STDs.
It burns when I read/write
Re:Your SSDs (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, a step in the right direction (Score:2, Funny)
Why? They're almost free at 60 cents each :-P
Verizon cents.
Re:Your SSDs (Score:1, Funny)
Surely you mean "I/O".
(or else you're doing it wrong)
Re:where is the (Score:5, Funny)
The preferred spelling is lysdexia.
Re:Oh Yeah? (Score:5, Funny)
That's not pedantry, it's rigour.
Thank you for taking the time to correct my misuse of a sixty year old acronym in an off-hand quip replying to a fart joke. It is this level of attention to detail which makes slashdot what it is.
Re:Well, a step in the right direction (Score:3, Funny)
Plus RAID-0 ain't all it's cracked up to be. I had a Dell XPS600 with RAID 0 and one of the drives went kaput. Guess what happens to all the other drives then ? They're useless. 4X drives in RAID-0 means you have four times the chance of having a dead weight for a system.
RAID0: Optimised for failure.