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Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

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Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

Postby Vectrex_Kid on Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:20 pm

Intel's SSD is out: 80GB, 250MB/s reads, 70MB/s writes, and a price of about $595. Reviews say it destroys everything else, including the Raptor, for random access. Anyone crazy enough?
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Re: Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

Postby Trip_Wire on Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:02 pm

The cheap JMicron drives stutter so badly they're unusable for an OS drive. This is the first SSD I'd actually trust. At $7 a gigabyte, though.
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Re: Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

Postby ctrl_alt_defeat on Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:40 pm

$595 is a 4870 and a 360 Arcade. Wake me up when it's $200.
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Re: Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

Postby BrassMonkey on Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:17 pm

Work bought one for the build server. Boots Vista in about 20 seconds and compiles fly. I'm jealous of a server.
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Re: Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

Postby Vectrex_Kid on Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:20 pm

Seen it for $549 at a couple of places now. Still too much, but heading in the right direction.
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Re: Intel X25-M -- $600 for 80GB?

Postby BrassMonkey on Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:10 pm

Give it a year. Mechanical drives in gaming PCs are going to look as silly as floppy drives do now.
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