Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 8, 2008 4:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Storage
Overall System Performance with SYSMark 2007
Our first test is the full SYSMark 2007 benchmark suite. It's a system-level performance test that measures performance based on average response time, making it a great candidate for our SSDs, which should provide pretty low response times, at least compared to standard mechanical disks.
The Intel X25-M does very well here, just edging past the fastest desktop drive on the market and outperforming all other mechanical disks in its own 2.5" form factor. We saw a 15% increase in overall performance under SYSMark compared to the Seagate Momentus 7200.2; to get that sort of speed boost on a notebook would take Nehalem otherwise.
You'll notice that I threw in the 150GB Raptor in the mix as well, that's our current CPU testbed HDD. Our Q9450 saw performance go up by 9% thanks to the X25-M, that's more of a performance boost than you'd get by upgrading to a QX9650 and again, this is a system-level test, not disk specific.
Here you also see the problems with the JMicron equipped MLC drives, the Intel X25-M manages to outperform these drives by nearly 30%. The Video Creation test is particularly bad with the Intel X25-M garnering a score nearly 2x of the JMicron MLC drives. We've already established that the X25-M is the only MLC drive that you should consider, this simply helps provide more support.
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aeternitas - Thursday, September 11, 2008 - link
I dont know where you shop, but 100$ can get you 750GB.It doesnt make much of a point anyway, as flash based and typical hard drives will coexist for at least the next ten years. One for preformance, the other for storage.
Maybe some of you are too young to remember, but it was only about 10 years ago that a 20GB hard drive cost 200$ at costco. We are a huge step in terms of the new technology from where we were before. 32 GB for 100$? Yes please. In ten years i expect to see 3+TB flash drives running over 1GBps throughput for around 200$.
strikeback03 - Thursday, September 11, 2008 - link
I assume they were referring to 2.5 inch drives, as those prices are more in line with what was stated.Also don't forget that with the drop in $/GB of drives has come an increase in demand for storage. Ten years ago digital photography was almost non-existent, with file sizes topping out under a megabyte. Images on the web were maybe 640x480. Now we have digital cameras that average 4-6MB as JPEGs, and some can turn out images over 30MB, not counting the medium-format backs (over 100MB IIRC for the 65Megapixel Phase 1). When I was in college any movie you saw on the network was sized to fit a 700MB CD, Now HD movies can range well over that. MP3s are still the same, or you can store in a lossless format if you choose.
Will 3TB be small in 10 years? Possibly. The key for flash completely replacing mechanical will be getting the price low enough to hold large amounts of the current data.
aeternitas - Saturday, September 13, 2008 - link
Even if they were useing 2.5" drives in the example, it doesnt matter. The fact that these drives will be replaceing 3.5" ones makes their point just as misguided in the point they were trying to make.Laptop and desktop drives were differant due to size, now they arnt, so you cant comapair them (HDD vs SSD) in such a illogical manner.
Blimeynext - Friday, April 23, 2010 - link
"Intel went one step further and delivered 5x what the OEMs requested. Thus Intel will guarantee that you can write 100GB of data to one of its MLC SSDs every day, for the next five years, and your data will remain intact."Any tool out there which tells me how much I write to my HDD each day? It would be nice to find out my present usage and compare it with the 100 GB/day limit....
If I write less than 20GB a day does that mean the SSD will last at least 25 years?
Smokerz - Sunday, January 2, 2011 - link
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/...read it all
Smokerz - Sunday, January 2, 2011 - link
sorry for the misspell