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M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
Intel Completes Wind River Acquisition 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 ...
Intel's 34nm TRIM Firmware & SSD Toolbox
Intel's 34nm TRIM Firmware & SSD Toolbox
techgage.com — Introduction Along with the Windows 7 launch last week, came the long-awaited support for TRIM. As the... OS natively supports the new storage command, if there's an SSD installed and no other storage drivers are present, TRIM will work. It's that ... (more) Intel's 34nm TRIM Firmware & SSD Toolbox
Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive Review
Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive Review
futurelooks.com — Despite the rapid price drops of decent sized solid state drives, pricing limits them from reaching the... average consumer. The marketing has also convinced us that it takes the largest and flashiest hard drives to get the best performance which means ... (more) Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive Review
Express SSD Review
Express SSD Review
hothardware.com — An interesting thing about NAND Flash SSD (Solid State Drive) technologies, beyond the fact that the market... is flush with competitive product offerings, is that the technology itself is very flexible and adaptable to a number of different design ... (more) Express SSD Review
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Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance Update
DarkVision Hardware Articles and Review from around the web — ... performance, but adds support for the TRIM feature as well. A performance optimization tool is also being release today, for users of Windows Vista and XP, who won't be able to take advantage of TRIM. We flashed one of our Intel 34nm Gen 2 X25-M 160GB SSDs with the new firmware and ran a handful of tests under Windows 7 to see what kind of affect it had on performance. Details of the update process and optimization tool are posted, as well as before and after benchmarks... Link: HotHardware

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