Thread: Fresh SSD from Intel, Kingston and Western Digital

The market of solid state drives is developing up at a speedy rate, the manufacturers regularly declaring fresh examples. Most significantly, the competition has led to the long-anticipated decrease in costs. Although flash memory itself does not acquire cheap so quick, the relatively big production volumes, particularly equated with early SSDs that utilized to be closely unique products, leaves few elbowroom for cost maneuvering for the manufacturers.

It is due to the competition, also, that they have to expect for fresh customer-oriented choices and cover their product rate. For example, one of the SSDs to be tried now, the Intel X25-V, is the answer of such extension into the low-end market sector. The remians of the products are rather exciting as well.

We have acquired an updated V series example from Kingston whereas the other two SSDs represent the first levels of Western Digital, the popular HDD maker, in this area.It is too the first time we will use our fresh trying methodology to solid state drives. Let’s just assume a look at every of the products we are about to try.



Products from Intel should be well familiar to everybody who is interested in solid state drives. It was Intel that, with its X25-M and X25-E serial, dramatically altered our notions about SSDs founded on MLC flash memory as those series were absolutely free from the lastly basic trouble of low random writing function.

This dramatic development was achieved through means of a 10-channel controller that was so effective at caching requests as good as at distributing them between the memory cells, which is not a simple case when it arrives to flash memory. The tradeoff for such an effective function was that those SSDs had a lower sequential write velocity than their opponents.After that, the X25-M serial was revised.

It got flash memory constructed on thinner tech process, a bigger cache (32 rather of 16 megabytes) and an informed controller. The second-generation controller characteristics TRIM, a particular command that assists keeps function degradation of write functions.