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5.0 out of 5 stars
The best performing SSD. A GREAT performance update for any laptop., 15 Aug 2009
By Glenn Connery - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive - Solid state drive - 80 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 (Personal Computers)
Intel makes the best SSDs (Solid State Drives, e.g. flash based disk drives) at the moment, though the Indilinx-controller based drives like the OCZ Vertex or OCZ Solid 2 series come close. Don't be fooled by cheap SSD pricing from some vendors--many of those SSDs have issues that will cause serious performance stuttering (long multi-second delays every so often). Look around for reviews of the drive before you buy it.
Anyway, this drive is great. Sure its relatively small for a laptop drive these days, but since SSDs are still expensive, this is a nice compromise. And if you look at the space you actually use, you may find that you don't need a lot more than this.
Buy yourself a $20 USB/SATA 2.5" enclosure, and a copy of Acronis True Image Home 2009. Install the Intel SSD drive in the enclosure temporarily, hook it up via USB, run Acronis, select Utilities, Clone, and let it crank away for an hour or two. When its done, take the Intel SSD out of the enclosure and install it in your laptop in place of the original. You'll be amazed how much faster it is.
It should be a little faster at booting, but it will be especially wildly crazily faster at launching applications. Tired of waiting for firefox to launch? This will fix that. It will also be more rugged, and may use a little less power than before. Should run quieter as well.
Highly recommended, if still too expensive for most. But prices will be coming down rapidly.
BTW, Kingston sells a version of this drive with the USB enclosure AND Acronis True Image Home included if you want those.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intel X25-M SSD, 17 Sep 2010
By Genry Tovmasian "GENHEN" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Intel X25-M Mainstream Solid State Drive - Solid state drive - 80 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 (Personal Computers)
This product is not that much better than the average HDD out there. The only reason to get an SSD these days is to couple it with an awesome (gaming/video editing/intense usage) computer that can actually boost performance. But on your average computer (like mine), this does not have that much of an effect from a 7200 RPM 260GB SATA HDD. But its well worth the investment for small special things things you do with your computer (copying files, converting movies, etc...)
