With an ultrahigh performance 10 channel controller, very effective wear levelling and limitation of writes on memory blocks, the santa clara giant had come out with an ssd with as yet unseen performance and out of the ordinary reliability with 100 gbday writes for 5 years on mlc drives. Intel x25m 80gb mainstream solid state drive gen2, mlc flash technology, 2. Intel made a lot of noise when it arrived on the ssd market in september 2008. The only thing that i can remember like this is the time that i bought a. Review intel was the first company to deliver a sata ssd, its 80gb x25m, and we were blown away by the combination of speed and silence. Computerzubehor komponenten monitore drucker bestseller software.
I bought an intel x25m 80gb and it arrived yesterday, and i have it up and running tonight and i have to say that this is undoubtably the most amazing improvement that ive made in my system in as long as i can remember. I have the latest firmware for my intel x25m postville and f11 for the motherboard bios. The 160 gb capacity version came out several months after. Intel postville x25v ssdsa2mp040g2r5 40gb aeogenia. However, when talking about a failing ssd, meaning electronic failure. Intel then released a 34 nm flash memory version in the middle of 2009. Codename produkte mit fruherer bezeichnung postville. This firmware revision is for intel x25m sata ssd 34nm products only. The x25m was released in an 80gb capacity with 50 nm nand flash memory in a 2. Put my 2010 128gb apple toshiba ssd in the thunerbook and all is happy. Sector remap fragmentation slowing intel x25m ssds ars. I have a x18m shown 8mb few days back, and tried to update the firmware via the cd downloaded from intel website, but it said the firmware.
I was going thru some other ssds from other makers and intel is slow. The new 80gb x25m is the blazing fast ssd just released from intel that has knocked our socks off in testing. I installed dragon age 2 onto it via steam and it loads so quickly i dont have time to read the. Good news, users of intel x25m and x18m solidstate drives. More important than changes to the x25ms performance ratings are the steps intel has taken to combat the scourge. I bought a intel x25m 80gb a couple of weeks ago, win 7, office, crysis, sc2 on it, and 42gb free. Whats the latest firmware for intel ssdsa2m160g2gc intel x25m 160gb ssd 2. Search hello select your address select your address.
Fought with the intel 250gb 510 for 2 days and gave up. Intel x25m 120gb retail solid state drive tweaktown. Frequently asked questions about intel data migration software user and installation guides for intel ssd toolbox. Intel x25m ssd firmware update boosts write speeds 40%. So very close to its bigger brother the x25m 80gb, and so the performance is almost the same. Intel ssd x25m series 160gb best compatible ssd x25m.
Tech sector remap fragmentation slowing intel x25m ssds intels celebrated x25m ssd may have just lost some of its luster. Advanced programmable interrupt controller cache acceleration software. Intel refused to release any trimsupporting firmware for the first generation. It has almost been a year since i wrote about the future of computing and how i thought that it was all about solid state drives this was before i became infatuated with the cloud. Neither explanation does a good job of explaining why the 160gb g2 with the latest firmware has faster writes than the 80gb g2 100mbs vs 70mbs. Intel x25m postville ssd and gaex58ud5 best bios settings. Intel x25m g2 80gb postville ssd solid state drive unboxing linus tech. The x25m was released in an 80gb capacity with 50 nm nand flash. The tool comes in the form of an iso image and requires either a completely empty usb drive or a blank cd with cd burning software and a readwritable cdrom drive. How to really update intel ssd firmware 02hd from usb flash drive.
Our first chance to take a look at this drive is inside the hp elitebook 8530w where. Why is the x25m 80 gb ssd have such a slow write speed. As i am currently working on a new nas testbed, i had. Intel firmware addresses x25m, x18m ssd slowdowns the. Samsung has a new ssd design thats being sold by corsair and ocz, and it offers better. The intel x25m was a line of serial ata interface solidstate drives or ssds developed by. Now the intel 510 sits in the 2010 17 mbp waiting for my next move. Hello, i would like to have some insight about the boot times from windows 7 when postville 80gb ssd is used.
Intel 80 gb x25m mainstream sata ii solidstate drive ssd. Intels secondgeneration x25m solidstate drive the tech report. If i try to online update driver software it says windows has determined the driver software for your. Buy the intel x25m mlc 80gb internal solid state drive at a super low price. What are good bios settings for intel x25m postville ssd firmware2cv102hd and gaexud5 motherboard firmwaref12. After installing intel rst windows does not recognize hdd. Intel has released a firmware update that addresses and apparently resolves a performance problem caused by internal fragmentation. But especially nonintel drives may fail in different ways. Got my intel x25m 80gb ssd up and running anandtech. Solidstate drives perform much more effectively than hard disk drives, with faster readwrite speeds, lower latencies, and even higher physical shock resistance, but come at a price premium. Although not amazingly fast while booting once that is done everything goes fast. Fur normaluser sollten 80gb auch vollkommen ausreichend sein, wenn. The 40gb x25v is part of intels new value ssd line which aims to merge both performance and value for consumers who are starting to think about upgrading to a ssd, or want to use an ssd as a boot drive. The first, the ssd 510, used an sata 6 gigabit per second interface to reach speeds of up to 500 mbs.
How to update your intel ssd x25 firmware video dailymotion. This article contains detailed information on intel x25m g2 postville ssds. Your options are effectively to get a 128gb mlc drive, an 80gb intel x25. The ssd 310, intels first msata drive was released in december 2010, providing x25m g2 performance in a much smaller package. Its intels new x25m 80gb ssd and it is among the fastest consumeraimed ssds out right now. Buy the intel x25m sata solid state drive at a super low price. Today, we take a look at the performance of a pair of intel x25m 80gb ssd drives, in both single drive and raid 0 modes. Because intel used the same exact name for these new drives, the consumers nicknamed the 34 nm ssds as the x25m g2. Unfortunately, the price was rather steep but you cant. Ps, i own an 50nm 80gb intel, im semi ticked intel wont release a firware with trim in it, at the same time, it still has the second fastest. Use your encrypted intel solid state drive on a different system.
Windows 7 boot on 2x intel ssd x25m postville 80gb in. I have installed win 7 x64 on the postville g2 and i am a bit surpris. The intel x25m mainstream sata ii solid state drive retail provides faster disk performance and greater durability than traditional hard drives. The intel ssd firmware update tool provides the firmware update capabilities for the intel optane memory and intel solid state drives listed in release notes. Windows 7 booting from 2x intel ssd x25m postville 80gb in raid 0. Unfortunately in our testing we found the 80gb postville ssd lacked capacity and at the time the 160gb version cost substantially more than.
To view this site, you must enable javascript or upgrade to a javascriptcapable browser. Intel have pushed out their promised update to the x25m ssd, along with the intel ssd toolbox and optimizer, the standout factor of which is a 40percent increase in performance for the 160gb driv. Shop newegg for fast and free shipping on intel internal ssds with the best prices and awardwinning customer service. Detection of counterfeitfake intel x25m 80gb g2 possible to upgrade w dvd on pata. Windows 7 on samsung nc10 with 2gb ram and intel x25m ssd g2 80gb postville. The intel ssd x25m series 160gb is a solidstate drive, which means it stores data using flash memory similar to how usbs store data, but much more effectively. Intel 34nm x25m gen 2 ssd performance update hothardware. March 2011 saw the introduction of two new ssd lines from intel. In this article, hothardware takes a detailed look at the intel 34nm x25m gen 2 ssd performance with its latest firmware update that enables trim. Dieser artikel enthalt detailinformationen zu intel x25m g2 postville ssds. I have revision 2cv102m3 which i installed a couple. Is the ocz vertex 120 ssd a better choice than intel x25m 80gb. Although intel will be releasing the x25m g3 ssds in the next few months, i get asked frequently to provide some x25m g2 numbers for comparison with the other ssd benchmarks on this site. Any experience with boot times windows 7 x64 with intel.
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