Travel Technology - Just switched to a SSD - no turning back

After 5 HDD failures (been on the road alot lately) and a grumpy IT department, they swapped out my HDD for an Intel X-25m SSD. While it is 80GB (I store the majority of my files on our servers), the 120 GB version will be out in January. I have to say I am blown away. My IT department had nothing but failures with the OCZ/Samsung (older chipset) SDD's that ran on MLC technology as well, but have gotten rave reviews about the Intel SSD's.

First Impressions (after a week)
Windows Vista boots on my Lenovo T61 in 20 seconds.
The impression of silence!
Seems like I have a new machine
No complaints!

The IT department has had sporatic Outlook 2007 complaints, however that has been fixed by changing some setting. These drives are a big hit on my side of the office.

Apparently while the OCZ drives were G-d awful for multitasking, the Intel drives, while also MLC, preform better (or at least according to these reviews beneath this post). Also they are rated for 100GB of writes/day for 5 years and notifies you when its lift expectancy is growing short.

I would reccomend these! So much that if my laptop were on my dime I would buy it. No more worrying about the TSA touching my laptop!

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/storage/intel-x25-m.aspx
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-x25-m-SSD,2012.html

Sounds yummy.

Can't wait for SSDs to get bigger and come down in price, but it'll take awhile.

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100 % agree! I got my Intel one about three weeks ago in my x200s and its phenomenal. Note to others though that the non-intel ssds are pretty lousy. You have to pony up for the intel one if you want really good performance.

Update: At JFK this AM, my laptop was (again) manhandled by TSA while in sleep mode. Normally I would freak, however my only fear came from not being used to the complete silence of the SSD!

The only other good one seems to be Mtron who have been making class-leadingly fast SSDs for the last few years. They will soon have their new range which is 260MB/s read and 240MB/s write (this write speed will be over 3x faster than the Intel) which is just staggering.

I'm planning on getting an 1.8-inch version for my HP laptop, which has always been let down by the 4200rpm, dog-slow and tiny hard drive. Looking forward to 130MB/s read and 120MB/s write - which is not possible through anyone else's solution on 1.8-inch right now. And it will only cost ~140USD in Korea!