The forecast for speedy, razor-thin laptops is looking pretty sunny right about now, because it seems
Intel's SSD 310 truly does bring the power of a full-sized solid state drive on a tiny little board.
Storage Review and
The SSD Review thoroughly benchmarked the tiny 80GB mSATA module this week, and found it performs even better than advertised -- easily tearing through 200MB / sec reads and 70 MB / sec writes -- which put it slightly behind Intel's legendary
X25-M series but well ahead of the company's
X25-V boot drives. While we're still not seeing
Sandforce speeds from Intel's tried-and-true controller and 34nm silicon and they might not make
Toshiba's Blade run for the hills, we can't wait to test it out in some new Lenovo ThinkPads when they integrate the SSD 310 later this year. Oh, by the way, that big green board up above isn't the drive. It's actually the tiny one on top.
Intel's mSATA SSD 310 reviewed: a pint-size performer through and through originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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