about Intel X25-M G2
Last fall, Intel is in the solid state storage world upside down when he published the first shot of X25-M, the first unit to offer a combination of speed reading and writing while using a cost of several lower-level cell (MLC) NAND Flash memory. Since then, a number of competitors for Samsung OCZ has responded with units that have been adopted or Intel on many tests, offering a lower price per gigabyte (Editor’s note: Read about 7 of these units in our SSD Roundup High Speed).
Although Intel has released an updated firmware and reduce the price a bit, did not respond with a new drive now. Thanks to its X25-M G2 (Generation 2), a chipmaker bar above, using a new 34nm process to reduce costs and a new controller chip to improve performance. At a price of $ 440, the 160 X25-M G2 offers good reading and dazzling performance, but its speed writing is not even competitors.
Design and Form Factor
Intel X25-M G2 is available in 2.5-inch form factor and SATA interface. Most notebooks in the last two years of support SATA, but some ultra-slim and lightweight and the Lenovo ThinkPad T400 systems use 1.8-inch drives instead. A 1.8-inch version of the same unit, the X18-M G2, will be available in a few weeks, probably at the same price. Before you upgrade, be sure to consult the manual.
You can spend a lot of time looking in a SSD, so that its design is not very important. However, when we spend hundreds of dollars on a component of high performance, you want to be well built. The X25-M G2 counterfeiting silver frame does not win any beauty, but, unlike some units that we tried were housed in plastic fragile, at least it is protected by the metal.
