Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives

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Agreed. I have a fairly decent spec laptop E7200, 4GB, 8600GT, 1920x1200 etc, but with Vista installed, it soon grinds to a halt when doing any photoshop stuff, or with a lot of firefox windows open.

I have just seen the UK price of the Intel drive, so i wont be going there (£460 minimum). Not sure what else to try, the OCZ ones seem to be having trouble with Vista too I think.

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X-bit labs - First Look at Intel X25-M SSD
Here is another review on these.

"The Intel X25-M boasts such a quick access time that it is just incomparable to HDDs and many previous SSDs. It also delivers superb performance at random-address operations (at both reading and writing), a very high speed of sequential reading and a sufficiently high speed of sequential writing. It is a new star in the high-performance storage world. And we promise you to keep our eye on it".

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Intel SSDs RAID 0, A Case Study In Speed, Take 2 - HotHardware

And more only some RAID action this time.

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It just makes me want one more, but it would be worth more than my laptop

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Yep, i cant think of anything i want for my rig more than one of these. Its just too much money.