Intel 80 GB X25M Mainstream SATA II Solid State Drive Retail Package SSDSA2MH080G2R5
- With no moving parts, Intel SSDs offer a quiet storage solution that responds quickly and uses less power
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Intel X25M 80GB Mainstream Solid State Drive – Gen2, MLC flash technology, 2.5-Inch form factor, SATA (3.0Gb/s), 9.5mm Retail Box. Postville.Amazon.com Product Description
The future of computer storage is here! The Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA II Solid State Drive (Retail) provides faster disk performance and greater durability than traditional hard drives. Since it stores data using NAND flash memory instead of spinning platters, the X25-M will never keep… More >>
Source Intel 80 GB X25M Mainstream SATA II Solid State Drive Retail Package SSDSA2MH080G2R5
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People had to many issues with this drive. After much research I was afraid to buy one. Alot of dead drives and issues with upgrading firmware. People had a hard time returning the items, including a guy that they told him nothing was wrong with his drive and sent it back to him. If nothing is wrong with it, maybe they shoulda kept it and gave him a different one. Having had issues like these myself I choose not to deal with RMA’s if I can avoid it. I still have a motherboard that I purchased from Amazon that Amazon would not return nor would the manufacturer. The board did not allow me to use an add-in video card by not properly disabling the onboard video. I saved all the replys and sent emails to Amazon and the vender. Now the board just sits in a box.
Rating: 2 / 5
i’m sure it’s a good drive but i think there’s some price gouging going on here as it was over $100 less just a couple of days ago.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this drive thinking it could dual as a notebook drive and external drive. It turns out that this drive cannot be used as an external drive for the most stupid of all reasons. They put the freakin’ plug in the wrong place!!!
Now when I try to slide the drive into a sleeve for an external drive, the flap won’t close because it is a sixteenth of an inch to the side of where it should be. Note that other notebook drives work just fine.
Stay away from this drive. If they can’t even put the Sata Connector in the correct place then who knows what else made it through their quality control.
Rating: 1 / 5
Intel hasn’t bothered to release even a simple command-line utility to deal with the internal fragmentation problem SSDs have, which degrades their performance as they are used. The company could at least put a warning label on the box.
The TRIM command, which Intel supports in Windows 7 (via updated firmware) and in earlier Windows operating systems with a manual Toolbox, takes care of this problem — but not if you have a Mac and are running OS X. Intel also hasn’t bothered to support the people who bought the first version of this product, G1, even in Windows. There is no TRIM support via a firmware update and no manual utility that I know of.
While this is a nice SSD overall, given that all the computers I own and many people I know own are Macs, it’s only a 3-star product at best because there is no good way to manage the performance degradation issue. And, since G1 owners are being left behind, that’s also a knock on this product.
Rating: 3 / 5
Pretty boring really. I installed it, it worked. My only complaint is that I bought a 3.5 to 2.5 inch bay converter not realizing one was included with the Intel drive (I’d previously bought an OCZ vertex for another system an it did not include one).
Rating: 5 / 5