Intel Responds to Fragmentation with New X25-M Firmware

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In mid-February, PC Perspective broke the story

(http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669) about a potential issue with

Intel's X25-M mainstream solid state drives involving fragmentation and

performance slow downs. At that time, after having the news picked up by

everyone from CNet to the Wall Street Journal, Intel's started working with

us to replicate the problem and find a fix if at all possible. Well today,

we are glad to discuss, Intel has released a new firmware for the X25-M

line of SSDs that not only fixes the flaws we found in the drive initially,

but also increases write performance across the board.

 

We have the full analysis of the original problem, details on the fix and

full performance comparison between original and newly released firmwares.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=691

 

Quote: "The 8820 firmware has completely renewed my faith in the X25-M.

The weak link has been eradicated, and I’m thoroughly impressed with the

renewed performance it will bring to all M series drive users. I am also

thoroughly pleased with Intel for being so open to feedback from the

reviewers."

 

Thanks for passing on this information!

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective