Intel X-25M 80GB SSD Review

Crystal DiskMark

Crystal DiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows you to measure sequential and random read/write speeds; and allows you to set the number of test iterations to run. We left the number of tests at 5. When all 5 tests for a given section are run, Crystal DiskMark then averages out all 5 numbers to give a result for that section.

READ


This beast really is capable of some monster read performance! While the sequential and 512 numbers are down right amazing (nearly 2 or 3 times greater than the next best IS amazing!!) but what was really impressive was the small 4k read test. That number is down right amazing. Honestly, when you see numbers which are for all intents and purposes TWENTY times better than a VelociRaptor (well actually more like 19.5 times but who is counting?), it becomes hard to find words to accurately describe performance.


Write

As we saw with the HD Tune Write test, the X-25 is only average when it comes to sequential and / or 512k chunks writes; BUT when the file size shrinks down to 4k chunks…then it’s a Déjà vu all over again, with (better than) 20x better performance numbers! As with the read section the X-25M’s controller and MLC NAND chips shine with small files, and in the real world this is what is really important as your OS darn near constantly reads and writes little data chunks to and from your OS drive.