Intel X-25M 80GB SSD Review

Random Access Time

To obtain the absolute, most accurate Random access time, h2benchw was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive. To run this program, one must use a DOS prompt and tell it what sections of the test to run. While one could use "h2benchw 1 -english -s -tt "harddisk test" -w test" for example and just run the seek tests, we took the more complete approach and ran the full gamut of tests and then extracted the necessary information from the text file. This is the command line argument we used "h2benchw 1 -a -! -tt "harddisk drivetest" -w drivetest". This tells the program to write all results in english, save them in drivetest txt file, do write and read tests and do it all on drive 1 (or the second drive found, with 0 being the OS drive).


When you get into numbers this small they really start to become almost abstract in their size. What we mean is 0.09 is basically a smaller slice of time than we can precieve, heck it takes about .33 of second to blink your eye…and the X-25 is 3.6 times faster than that! If that is not impressive enough for you consider this: Bob Munden who is considered the "fastest gun in the world" can draw and fire a SAA colt in .27 seconds…and this X-25M would eat him for lunch (and leave him dead in the ground in a draw). So respect the X-25M ‘cause it deserves it.

SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second and have been averaged out from the scores of 4 test runs.



It is becoming an almost monotonous reoccurring theme; the Intel X-25 simply stomps all over the competition in the SIS benchmark department. Numbers these large were simply unimaginable a short while ago.