Bring an extra level of performance and reliability to your PC with Intel's X-25M Solid State Drive. Unlike regular hard disks, the Intel solid-state drives have no moving parts, giving you a cool, rugged storage alternative. The lower power needs of this 32GB SSD translate to lighter notebooks with a longer battery life.
These innovative drives deliver outstanding performance with the latest-generation SATA interface and architecture with 10 parallel NAND flash channels and Native Command Queuing for up to 32 concurrent operations. Far faster than traditional drives with impressive reliability, these Intel drive perform better and are likely to last longer!
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SSD Storage TechnologyActing without any moving parts, the Intel X25-E SDSA2SH032G1 solid state disk (SSD) boasts multiple advanced features including zero mechanical noise, faster data rates compared to conventional HDDs, over 2-million-hour life span, ultra-low power consumption and impressive shock, vibration and extreme temperature resistance. With these breakthrough capabilities, the SSD meets all the demanding requirements for high-performance data storage.
2.5" Form FactorThe Intel X25-E SDSA2SH032G1 solid state disk is specifically designed for notebook computers equipped with a 2.5" SATA drive bay.
SATA 3.0 Gb/s InterfaceThe Intel X25-E SDSA2SH032G1 solid state disk features the next-generation SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
Pros: Fastest, lowest latency device I have used for primary storage besides maybe a ramdisk. When I got the SSD, it showed 54 hours of usage and 66 power cycles, I assume this is testing at the factory, in any case, this is what the smart stats look like and some basic dd speed tests, as shown in the techreport review, write speed is quite fast, 227MiB/s. The machine used to take about 60-70 seconds to boot, it now takes about 5-6 seconds. When opening browsers etc, I no longer hear my (previously) 750 gig disk grinding away loading all the libraries, everything is instantaneous. I am happy I waited for the X25-E SSD as it has much better write performance (~227MiB/s vs. 70MiB/s with the X25-M) and its also SLC; it should last longer than a traditional MLC SSD. Overall, a great product.
Cons: Price, but worth every penny. # hddtemp /dev/sda WARNING: Drive /dev/sda doesn't seem to have a temperature sensor. WARNING: This doesn't mean it hasn't got one. WARNING: If you are sure it has one, please contact me (hddtemp@guzu.net). WARNING: See --help, --debug and --drivebase options. /dev/sda: SSDSA2SH032G1GN INTEL: no sensor Disk is 32 gigabytes, or around ~30GB formatted.
Overall Review: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 32.0 GB, 32000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3890 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Incase you are wondering, both disks are using no barriers. time to decompress kernel tree (linux, xfs): $ /usr/bin/time tar xf linux-2.6.27.7.tar Total bytes read: 293857280 (281MiB, 75MiB/s) 0.15user 1.12system 0:03.74elapsed 34%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+645minor)pagefaults 0swaps The same thing on a 750 gigabyte hdd: $ /usr/bin/time tar xf linux-2.6.27.7.tar Total bytes read: 293857280 (281MiB, 6.5MiB/s) 0.15user 1.22system 0:43.29elapsed 3%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+643minor)pagefaults 0swaps I used a 1MB blocksize but newegg bans that phrase in the command so I removed it (blocksize=1M): write speed: # dd if=/dev/zero of=1gigabyte count=1024 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 4.71984 s, 227 MB/