Intel X25 80GB Solid-State Drive Review

**MIG-31** · Sep 8, 2008, 05:46 PM

When we first heard Intell was diving into the solid-state drive business, we were pretty surprised. In retrospect, though, we probably should have seen it coming—the writing was on the wall. Intel's joint venture with Micron gave them tremendous NAND flash memory capacity. The company had also introduced tiny SSDs for handheld devices. Packaging NAND chips into larger format drives is just a logical step.
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caqde · Sep 8, 2008, 08:53 PM

Now if the drives would just drop in price to something semi reasonable. I'll be sticking to the old platter based HD until then. The speed is nice on these Solid state drives though.

BlueMak · Sep 9, 2008, 04:11 AM

The thing is not ready for use. It's a great move by Intel, just not there yet.

**kris23** · Sep 9, 2008, 04:41 AM

funny thing to know that Intel is making SSDs now.....

Sep 8, 2008, 05:46 PM	#1
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Sep 8, 2008, 08:53 PM	#2
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Sep 9, 2008, 04:11 AM	#3
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Sep 9, 2008, 04:41 AM	#4
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