Intel X25-M 120GB SSD Released with Lower Holiday Price

[mickey megabyte]

i've already got macrium reflect on my 7pe thumb drive

 

[toughbook]

you guys with the desktops make me jealous at times! I am just a 1 drive laptop. Although when I dock my laptop at home I use an external spinner via USB 3.0 that is a blast compared to 2.0!

 

[whs]

you guys with the desktops make me jealous at times! I am just a 1 drive laptop. Although when I dock my laptop at home I use an external spinner via USB 3.0 that is a blast compared to 2.0!

I run 1 laptop with an 80GB Intel which is 60% empty. The wife uses it and she keeps all her data on sticks. Just bought some more 16GB sticks on Black Friday ($15 a piece). But a USB3 spinner would do well too.

 

[Dave76]

My test results are showing the Access times at 4K is 0.216ms. I can't remember what my Intel was. This is with my Corsair SSD.

My Intel X25-V 40GB access times are 0.092 ms Read and 0.076 ms Write.

Info from AS SSD.

yes, i'll probably be ordering one tomorrow

they're also giving away a free game to sweeten the deal here - which happens to be my fave buying site anyway, and i do like games. it's a shame that games are so big, with all that multimedia content goodness...

i'm going to have to seriously lighten my new install, as i've currently got 45 gigs :shock: in my steam folder alone! which is making a bigger drive look more attractive - why hasn't intel/oc.uk got a 60 gig drive available? oh i wish i had more money! :huh:

i'll be following Kari's advice re moving the users folder which will lighten the load a little, i don't use hibernation, and i guess it's time to read seriously all the other ssd threads...oh, i love upgrading!

at the moment i'm using a 1tb spinner, and i'm wondering how to best use it in conjunction with the ssd. obviously i'll be keeping my data on it, and big bloaty games - yes i'm looking at you, dirt2, with your near 11 gigs etc. it's the big games that will mostly benefit from an ssd, but also use it all up! :banghead:

is it best to keep my big hdd all as one big terrabyte partition, or do you recommend i keep my large games, movies, and other data on seperate partitions? is there any real benefit to keeping big movie files on its own partition with bigger data blocks/allocation unit sizes? what about swap file? it will be easier to defragment smaller partitions, but is it really worth it?

Mickey,

Great choice, the X25-V is a fast SSD.

The access time is the most noticable benefit for SSDs.

As for the other questions, I agree with Wishmaster and whs on every topic.

Let us know if you have any questions and how your new speed demon is running