Product Details
- Brand: Intel
- Model: SSDSA2MH080G2R5
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .90" h x
4.30" w x
5.90" l,
.28 pounds
Features
- With no moving parts, Intel SSDs offer a quiet storage solution that responds quickly and uses less power
Product Description
Intel X25M 80GB Mainstream Solid State Drive - Gen2, MLC flash technology, 2.5-Inch form factor, SATA (3.0Gb/s), 9.5mm Retail Box. Postville.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
122 of 123 people found the following review helpful.
By J. Reyes
I also have a G1 version of this drive and it's literally life-changing (I use the SSD drive in my work laptop). It's amazingly fast!!! If you notice your laptop or desktop to be accessing your harddisk a lot of time then you will see tremendous speed performance with this drive. It's the best performance upgrade you can have in your laptop.In terms of the drive's life expectancy, the main factor is the amount of writes you do to the drive. On a normal daily-laptop-work usage then the drive will last >15 years. You can actually calculate this since the number of write cycles is tracked in the drive via the S.M.A.R.T attributes. So you can calculate when the drive will gonna die. Intel did a wonderful job in write amplification and wear-levelling algorithm. Thus, it will be obsolete before it reaches the maximum rated write cycles.If you are a techie, then check out the following links:Detailed intel spec sheet on the drives:[...]All you need to know about ssd drives (31-page anandtech thesis):[...]X25M Gen2 review:[...]
55 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
By A. Wiersch
This review is for the product itself, not about stock or sellers!This is a fantastic upgrade to a computer system. The Intel G2 drives support TRIM when upgraded with the latest firmware. Windows 7 automatically support TRIM. TRIM increases the drive's performance and efficiency.Upgrading from an HD to a good SSD like an Intel SSD will result in a SIGNIFICANT performance improvement unlike make other upgrades you may make, like a bump in CPU performance, memory, or video card. An SSD is many times faster than an HD in many important ways and has a big impact on the responsiveness of a computer.The Intel is even price competitive with other SSD offerings.Pros:* SPEED* Significantly faster than a VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM hard drive* Superior controller design vs other manufacturers* Windows 7 scores this drive a 7.8 (highest possible is 7.9)* Low power consumption, great for notebooks especially (but also good for desktops)* Works just like a regular 2.5 inch drive so works great in SATA notebooks* Retail version comes with a metal 2.5" to 3.5" adapter for desktop use* Supports TRIM with latest firmware (G2 - second generation drives)* Latest firmware upgrades sequential write speed to about 100MB/s from 80MB/s (160GB version only)* Can download "Intel SSD Toolbox" to view drive information and optimize the driveCons:* Expensive compared to HD's* Slower sequential write speed than some competitors - but for many this does not significantly affect overall performanceOther:* My suggestion: Use an SSD for OS and applications and an HD for storage (like a Western Digital green drive)* See the photos I uploadedUPDATE 2011-02-18: My Intel G2 SSD drive has been and is still performing GREAT.
49 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
By DigicamNut
Let's get this out of the way first - this is not about capacity. Most everyone knows a 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM notebook hard drive can be had for less than half the price of this SSD. I swapped out this very 500GB 2.5" hard drive for this Intel 80GB SSD. Make sure you buy the G2 version which has TRIM support (enabled with firmware update from Intel) with no worries in performance degradation.With this SSD, my laptop feels more responsive than my Intel Core i7 *desktop* computer. Windows 7 cold boots in about 35 seconds (from after BIOS POST to wifi ready and web browser open, with anti-virus and firewall installed). The hard drive is the highest rated component in my laptop - 6 for the CPU (Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz), *7.8* for the hard drive (7.9 is the maximum score in Windows 7). Not just in actual use, installing Windows and other programs is also much faster. I have never seen programs install so fast before - Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installed in about 10 minutes from a USB drive.If you're shopping for a new laptop, forget the very expensive CPU upgrades for an extra few hundred MHz which you probably can't appreciate in everyday use. Stick with the base CPU (Core 2 Duo preferably), spend that money on this SSD. The speed increase with this SSD will be much more dramatic than having an extra few hundred megahertz.
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