Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive

price, reliability, usability

94% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, reliability, price, size, design

91% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

We expected great things when Intel announced it was to enter the SSD market and with the X25-M it has certainly delivered. Of course it costs a lot and the capacity is nothing compared to much cheaper hard drives, but that's always been the case with...

Improved performance with recent firmware update

Overall performance still behind other SSDs

Intel's offering has simply fallen behind the rivals

Ultra fast read speeds and latency ; Compact, silent and low power

Still rather pricey ; Small compared to conventional drives

Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable., Excellent reading performance., Outstanding 4K random I/O performance, Excellent multitasking potential., Lightning fast access times., Completely silent operation., Fast operating system...

Expensive., Slow sequential writing speed.

Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points below: The Intel X25-M series drives are good in fact, extremely good. Reading access times are lightning fast and applications load in an instant, making the Intel X25-M series of drives...

Intel has changed the fabrication process that it uses to manufacture the flash memory in its X25-M SSD. The result is a slightly faster drive that is available in 80GB and 160GB versions and which costs quite a bit less than the original X25-M.

Intel's 34nm Flash memory die-shrink has increased the performance of its revamped X25-M and at the same time made the SSD much cheaper. Excellent news.

Good write performance ; Amazing read performance ; Light Weight ; Silent ; Vibration Resistant ; 3 year Warranty

Price ; 80GB is a little on the small side

We certainly had high expectations for this drive as we were hoping to use it and its numbers as our Gold Standard for future reviews and

Beats vast majority of desktop hard drive read/write speeds despite being notebook-capable, low heat levels, low energy consumption

Very expensive, not much storage available

This speedy little device will fit and run snugly in any 2.5in laptop bay, providing excellent performance for a terrible price. If you've got the money to burn and want a device that is the best of its class, then Intel's X25-M is a device you must...