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Newegg said: General Brand DANE-ELEC Model DA-SDM25-80G-N-T-MK Device Type Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Architecture MLC Expansion / Connectivity Form Factor 1.8" Capacity 80GB Interface Type SATA II Features EVERYTHING you need to convert your internal boot drive to the amazing Intel X18-M SATA Solid-State Drive Incredible R/W speeds No moving parts High reliability Extended battery life Lower weight Quiet operation
Format: 1.8" SATA drive with adapter and case for 2.5" SATA drive
Packaging Content: 1. 1.8" 80GB Intel X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive 2. Adapter and Case for 2.5" SATA internal drive 3. 2.5" Dane-Elec Enclosure and USB cable for data migration and to re-use your old internal drive as an external back-up drive 4. 64 MB USB with migration software for both PC and Mac 5. Quick Start Guide Performance Power Consumption (Active) 150mW Typical Sequential Access - Read up to 250 MB/s Sequential Access - Write up to 70MB/s MTBF 1,200,000 hours
I have three of these running in Raid 0 on a workstation with a LSI 8408 controller card. It debottlenecked my WS in Catia significantly. I now get read speeds of 650mb/s or about 85% of 3 times the stand alone drive. Much faster and lower power draw than prior SCSI320 raid. If you can accept the lower write speed (irrelevent to me since the card has 256mb cache up gradable to 1gb DDR2). I have gotten two at this price and one at $189. Probably the best investment in my WS I have made.
Yes no TRIM but TRIM doesn't work with RAID anyway.
I bought this SSD two weeks ago and installed it in my old Macbook Pro (1,1). The macbook had a Hitachi 7200rpm 180GB drive but was getting very sluggish under Snow Leopard. Now, with this SSD, it feels like a new machine. Fast, cool, and quiet. So I just bought another one for my wife's macbook. Too bad I cannot afford 120GB or more.
I have a Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM harddrive in my late 2008 unibody Macbook Pro. Gonna rip out the Superdrive and put this SSD drive in it's place to use as the boot drive. Purchased an adapter off of eBay that will allow the HD to fit perfectly into the empty space left by the removal of the Superdrive.
I ran the two terminal commands to allow Remote Disc use on the MBP like the Macbook Air is able to do natively. If I ever need a physical DVD drive, I can always use an external slim USB drive I already have. But in almost the two years I had the laptop, I never used the DVD drive at all. So this is a perfect upgrade for me for SSD speed without losing the large capacity I would also like to retain on my MBP.
Note in Anandtech's article that he had issue with running SSD drives in his late model MBP. The only drive that work without a problem were the Intel SSD. Not sure if the other SSD manufacturers got their drives working ok with the MBP with new firmware but I am assuming because this is an X18, it shouldn't have a problem. I'll report back if there are any issues as far as compatibilities.
Another thing to note. It was an easy decision for me to go with the 80GB X18 because I am using it in a Macbook that doesn't support Trim. For those using it on Windows, you may want to spend the additional money for Trim. I know the X25-M G2 also does a better job of maintaining performance even without Trim, but at this pricepoint for an Intel SSD drive @80GB is too hard to past up.
Should hold me over until we see Intel next move later this year.
python2k said: Do they give a rating for how many erase-write cycles each "sector" can endure? Intel Gen1 drives (which this is a repackage of the x-18m (same electronics as the x-25m) are designed to last 5 years writing 10gb per day to the disk. I have 3 of these now, and I think I'll buy a 4th. The gen 2 intel ssds are a little faster at reads and support trim, but the gen 1 ssds were the only ssds to not significantly lose performance without trim. You'd be suprised at how much netbooks are improved by adding an ssd - makes all the difference in the world - don't notice the slow processor except during video decode/playback.
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