Intel X25-M Reviews hit the web

The best article to read about these drives is the one from AnandTech though the TechReport one is decent also. The AnandTech review does a great job investigating the cheaper solid state drives to uncover their performance issues with high latency. Their conclusion is to avoid any JMicron JMF602 based SSD’s. That’s too bad for me since I’m laptop shopping and I was thinking of supplementing my laptop with a reasonably priced SSD. And I still may but it’s probably just as likely that I’ll wait a while and see how this data shakes out. The folks at OCZ are investigating these issues. As for the Intel X25-M I’d say it’s out of my price range. Of course I wouldn’t mind a smaller capacity drive, say half the capacity for the half the price and I could become interested very quickly.