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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
How does this compare to the Intel X25-M 120GB drives? MemEx was selling that for $176 after rebate a month ago. Isn't that a better drive?
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I went from an Intel X-25 to a Patriot SandForce-1222 drive (essentially the same as the Corsair). For read speeds and access times, it's pretty much a wash (I think the Sandforce has a slight edge in benchmarks but it's negligible). But the SandForce blows the Intel out of the water in writes. In my benchmarks it's about 5x faster in random writes.
The X-25 is "legendary" because it was the first consumer-level drive with really obscene read performance which, for most people, is where they notice the SSD upgrade the most. Still an excellent piece of hardware but it's fallen behind the SandForce drives at the same price point.