Intel X-25M 80GB SSD Review

ATTO Disk Benchmark

The ATTO disk benchmark tests the drive's read and write speeds using gradually larger size files. For these tests, the ATTO program was set to run from its smallest to largest value (.5KB to 8192KB) and the total length was set to 256MB. The test program then spits out an extrapolated performance figure in megabytes per second.

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The X-25M starts out in first place and as the test continues simply widens its lead over the rest of the competition. It really is a monster when it comes to read speeds and we highly doubt we are going to see ANY single drive beat it in the near future. That right there is a bold statement and we may end up eating our words but we truly doubt it will be happening anytime soon…but we look forward to seeing what does come along to eat it for lunch.


Write

Write speed is obviously the weak link in the X-25M’s chain. It may start out in first but as the size of the files increase the speed of this drive slows down in its upward climb which eventually lands it in dead last place. What is also obvious is Intel has a specific goal in mind when they built and tweaked this controller and that was to optimize small file writes. To us this makes perfect sense as in the real world, small files are the norm and on large files no one really cares if it takes an extra couple seconds to finish as you are going to have to wait either way.

We hope other companies (like JMicron) take note of this and opt to follow suit as synthetic numbers are all well and fine but it’s the real world performance which counts the most.