Intel company waited for the suitable moment to begin the expansion for solid-state disk market, and the majority of experts recognized its debut as successful.
The analytical agency dRAMeXchange according to the testing results of 40 models contemporary solid-state disk comes to the conclusion that Intel products ensure the best combination of consumer qualities immediately in two categories: volume from 100 to 160 Gb and volume from 60 to 80 Gb.
Prize in the first ten were distributed as follows among the solid-state disk with 100 to 160 Gb volume:
- Intel X25- M SSDSA2M160G2GC 160 Gb;
- OCZ vertex PRO 120 Gb;
- A -Data SSD s599 100 Gb;
- G.SKILL phoenix 100 Gb;
- MX-Technology MXSSD2MDS 100 Gb;
- Micron REALSSD c300 128 Gb;
- Starex 128 Gb;
- Apogee mars flashSSD 128 Gb;
- Corsair CMFSSD-128GD1 x128 (128 Gb);
- Super sSpeed SSD 128 Gb.
The more accessible disk category has the volume arround 64 Gb:
- Intel X25- M SSDSA2M080G2GC 80 Gb;
- OCZ Of agility EX 60 Gb;
- KingFast KF251MCI 64 Gb;
- A -Data SSD s592 64 Gb;
- Starex 64 Gb;
- Gingle V3 64 Gb;
- PQI SSD s528 64 Gb;
- Corsair CMFSSD-64GBG 2d P64 (64 Gb);
- RiData of X -series NSSD-X25-64-C07M-PN 64 Gb;
- RunCore RCP-IV-S2564- C 64 Gb.
The authors of test explain, significant influence on the operating speed is due to the controller. Intel and Samsung here have an advantage, on now appeared SandForce, Indilinx and JMicron.