Intel X-25M solid-state drive
Stunningly Special SSD?
10th September 2008 09:48 GMT
The test results for the X25-M are staggeringly fast and blow the other drives out of the water. HD Tach supports Intel’s claims for a sustained read speed of 250MB/s and write speed of 70MB/s. Added to that the random access time is a mere 0.1ms.
HDTach 3.0.10 Results

Speeds in MB/s
Longer bars are better

Time in miliseconds
Shorter bars are better
Performance in PCMark05 was absolutely mind-blowing. In the HDD element of the benchmark, we usually hope to see a score around 8000 marks, but with the X25-M the score rocketed to 25,164 marks.
PCMark05 Results

Longer bars are better


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