Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD 164
theraindog writes "We've already seen Intel's first X25-M solid-state drive blow the doors off the competition, and now there's a new X25-E Extreme model that's even faster. This latest drive reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s, and offers ten times the lifespan of its predecessor, all while retaining Intel's wicked-fast storage controller and crafty Native Command Queuing support. The Extreme isn't cheap, of course, but The Tech Report's in-depth review of the drive suggests that if you consider its cost in terms of performance, the X25-E actually represents good value for demanding multi-user environments."
Re:Good price, actually. (Score:2, Insightful)
Yup, and it uses SLC chips so it has an enormously long lifetime, around 70 years according to Intel.
Re:It's not about speed to me (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:proper comparison? (Score:3, Insightful)
Do a test based on price.
$x,xxx worth of SAS/SCSI disks vs $x,xxx worth of SSD drives.
See which is faster then.
Thats the most realistic benchmark (for people without infinitely deep pockets).
Re:Good price, actually. (Score:2, Insightful)
Since you seem to know about this, how long would a normal Disk last in that environment?
Re:SLC too! (Score:2, Insightful)
With RAID-5 reaching its limits for magnetic media, a rack of these could be a viable replacement.
* bracing self for long discussion on RAID levels, file systems, and a certain Unix OS *
Re:Question for slashdotters: (Score:3, Insightful)
A *much* better failure model than HDDs forgetting about data on dodgy sectors etc.
Performance crown and new-school math (Score:3, Insightful)
We've already seen Intel's first X25-M solid-state drive blow the doors of the competition, and now there's a new X25-E Extreme model that's even faster. This latest drive reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s
Yet, 5 articles down the Slashdot homepage, options depending:
Samsung said it's now mass producing a 256GB solid state disk that it says has sequential read/write rates of 220MB/sec and 200/MBsec, respectively.
I'm pretty sure the improved write speeds is the part that people are interested in with SSDs these days.