Hot topic regarding HDD is SSD, whose brilliant outlook had just been realized by large HDD manufacturers while quite a few of minor players of the industry had already been preparing their third-generations. In appearance, it seems like a war between HDD makers, while under the hood, it is actually a war between the chip makers, NAND in particular.

We cannot stand against our outspoken Seagate operator too much, who had been increasing our chance to store anything anytime anyway, and hey, whatever.but, tech world changes really fast. Now it seems SSD will dominate the future, at least in mobile. With our hope for traditional big players to catch up, nobody can deny the big shift in performance SSD had been making. And now a particularly bigger one, if not the biggest, from Intel, who is named Intel X25-M SSD. Before we look ahead, take a look around.

There are three major NAND producers, Toshiba, Samsung and Intel. It is just really hard to find a present SSD without Samsung NAND chip inside. OCZ, SuperTalent.all big names are filled with them. Having stuck by these small scorekeepers’ somewhat speedy performance while apparent prevailing problems of lagging in reaction when intensively used and too much delay when prompted from a halt state, early adopters need a change, a greater breakthrough in speed, a quicker reaction in access, and a more steady design.

Intel comes up with solutions for all. They had released various types of SSD that would meet every demand in market. And Intel X25-M SSD is a medium positioned product that carries acceptable price equipped with excellent and sometimes superb performance.

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Test configuration:

INTELX25-M4 

INTELX25-MMainstreamSATASSD1

Just stunning performance! Access time is ZERO, meaning undetectable for HD Tune. Gosh.

X25-M2

Oh, my.I don’t believe it! Intel is doing very well!

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And for a score over 40,000, can you guess the results in detail?

INTELX25-M3-1

Superb, ever! And the result of PC Vantage.

INTELX25-M4

If anyway, a high score in PCMark05 could be an accident due to its mechanism being not independent enough, a score of about the same high in PC Vantage seal the argue.

Well, simply, this is the greatest HDD in history.

So what if we try it on a RAID card?

Areca?ARC-1231

Actually, ICH9 is almost pushed nearer its physical limit. Try copying two giant folders at the same time, and check this,

With ICH9,

2HDTune

With RAID card Areca ARC-1231,

HDTUNE2

The Answer is quite cleare. No wonder Intel claims this is a perfect disk for simultaneous operations.

Quote a saying popular from Anandtech, “Intel had just Conroe’d the HDD market.”

 

 

 

[Source: tuan]