![]() Performance degradation over time didn't matter because all of the SSDs on the market were slow out of the box and as I later showed, the pre-Intel MLC SSDs didn’t perform worse over time, they sucked all of the time. In my X25-M review the focus was on why the mainstream drives at the time stuttered and why the X25-M didn't. No we're not going back to the stuttering crap that shipped for months before Intel released their X25-M last year, but we are going back in the way we have to look at SSD performance. Here's hoping that this one doesn't have Ewoks in it. Plus, we all know how trilogies turn out. JMicron is all but gone from the market for now, Indilinx came and improved (a lot) and TRIM is nearly upon us. It's a daunting, no, deflating task to write what I view as the third part in this trilogy of articles. We've found the undiscovered country, we've left no stone unturned, everyone knows how these things work - now SSD reviews join the rest as a bunch of graphs and analysis, hopefully with witty commentary in between. The material is all there, but it just seems so mature and at the same time, so clouded and so done. OCZ's Vertex: The first Indilinx drive I reviewed, the drive that gave us hope there might be another.īut today, as I write this, the words just aren't coming to me. I just had to do the testing and writing. It took a while to put together, but the concept and the article were handed to me on a silver platter: just use an SSD for a while and you’ll spot the issue. The Anthology all began with a spark: the SSD performance degradation issue. Intel's X25-M SSDs: The drives that started a revolution ![]() Intel gave me gold with that drive the article wrote itself, the X25-M was awesome, everything else in the market was crap. The article that started all of this was the Intel X25-M review. And today I'm charged with the task of producing its successor. The Anthology took me six months to piece together I wrote and re-wrote parts of that article more times than I'd care to admit. ![]() Microsoft linked it, Wikipedia linked it, my esteemed colleagues in the press linked it, Linus freakin Torvalds linked it. What have I gotten myself into? The SSD Anthology I wrote back in March was read over 2 million times. ![]()
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