
Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
October 26th, 2009 admin
In all of our recent solid state disk (SSD) coverage that featured one of Intel’s X25-M drives, a common, underlying performance trend consistently emerged. The Intel drives were always amongst the top performers in read performance, and were unquestionably the best with regard to random writes.
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