Intel ships faster and cheaper SSD, X-25M G2 34nm, multiple reviews

[Filliam H. Muffman]

My guess is there will be even more reviews in a week or two. It has better write performance and handles overwriting erased blocks better.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1022/1/ Intel X25-M 160GB 34nm MLC G2 SSD Benchmark Review
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,28...469,00.asp Intel Shrinks SSDs to 34nm
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sho...spx?i=3607 Intel X25-M G2: Dissected and Performance Preview

[pipiens]

Is anyone using an Intel SSD for a Photoshop scratch disk?

What improvements do you see?

[mattkime]

give it another year or two and everyone will be considering switching.

[Article Accelerator]

Nice--thanks, FHM.

[OWC Larry]

You'd likely not want to that except with an SLC based SSD product as MLC is beat down over time based on number of write actions. A scratch disk would likely burn through those write cycles relatively quickly.

I think a RAID-0 with 2 drives would cost less and last a lot longer than using an SSD for scratch + provide pretty similar performance. Or - add a 3rd drive and beat for sure.

SSD rocks - just need to make some considerations.

pipiens wrote:
Is anyone using an Intel SSD for a Photoshop scratch disk?

What improvements do you see?

[sekker]

OWC Larry wrote:
You'd likely not want to that except with an SLC based SSD product as MLC is beat down over time based on number of write actions. A scratch disk would likely burn through those write cycles relatively quickly.

I think a RAID-0 with 2 drives would cost less and last a lot longer than using an SSD for scratch + provide pretty similar performance. Or - add a 3rd drive and beat for sure.

SSD rocks - just need to make some considerations.

[quote=pipiens]
Is anyone using an Intel SSD for a Photoshop scratch disk?

What improvements do you see?

I concur. I have a recent-issue Runcore SSD in this MBP, and it's pretty good so far (and far faster than any 2.5" shipping hard drive). But I do not think it's faster than the latest edition 3.5" 7200 rpm 1.5 TB hard drives from Seagate. I spent a little time with a project using that as an external eSATA boot disk, and it was super quick.