Speed freaks rejoice! This year Intel dropkicked the solid state drive market on the groin with the release of the 80GB X25-M MLC drive. That drive truly wiped the competition with monster 200MB/s read speeds, massively low random-access times, and jaw dropping no random-write stuttering or cache overflows.

This X25-M garnered a Kick Ass Award  at MaximumPC and smoked all contenders handsdown. With powerful competition from drives sporting Indilinx and Samsung controllers, can the 160GB X25-M maintain Intel’s crown? That, I’m confident of.

The  new 160GB X25-M comes clad in a silvery chassis, unlike its predecessor’s black, and is 7mm tall. You’ll find a generous spacer included that accommodates 9.5mm drive bays. Intel Corp ramped the flash manufacturing process from 50nm to 34nm, and retained native SATA and Native Command Queuing from its previous iteration.

What’s great about this new SSD drive? It’s so fast, that no matter how fragmented it gets, its speed remains the same. No more need to invest in useless third party defrag software like Diskeeper!

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