ADATA ASINTS-80GM-CSA 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: Fast, laptop or desktop (but that's the same for all 2.5" drives), cool, and low power useage

Cons: Very very very costly. For anyone who says the cost isn't that bad for what you get is lying. This drive is not 5x faster than a 7200rpm 80gb drive. In terms of writing at least. But nothing ever is. A ferrari isn't 10x faster than my Saturn, but costs 10x as much.

Other Thoughts: Bought one of those 348$ laptops with a single core amd 1.6ghz. upgraded the cpu to dual 2.0ghz for 23$ and popped this SSD in and MAN!! My laptop is killer fast! Extremely responsive! Altho, too small for much of anything. With win7 and photoshop cs3, office 2007, and basic things like flash, pdf reader etc, I have about 42GB free. So i stream my music and videos from my desktop.

So far, couldn't be happier, unless the price was lower, but it's not like I found out the price after I bought it so of course full eggs. I'm just wondering if the price is really worth it.... maybe. It's very fast.

Pros: Very fast, 80gb is kinda enough space eps in raid 0 if u buy two, easy upgrade for desktop or laptop.

Cons: You could buy four 320gb laptop drives for the price of this one. I hearbthey slow down after a while.

Other Thoughts: I'm a professional photographer videographer and these drives are far too small for this purpose. Plus its bad to fill it up and empty it off over and over. Still noter better than dual 300gb raptors for that. But this is in my $348 acer amd 2ghz dual core and it screams! I'm very happy I only have about 43gb left after about 4 weeks. Only 2 movies and about 10 songs.

Pros: This drive will change how you think about computers forever. I own an Intel X25M-G2 as well as this drive, which is identical, right down to the label. It's difficult to explain what using one of these is truly like. You just don't wait for applications any more. Ever. HDTune benchmarks are through the roof, and the 0.1ms seek time? Insane speeds for random reads.

Cons: This is the crack of hard disks. You will be hooked and there is a very good chance that you will wind up selling yourself for money to buy more.

Other Thoughts: Wow. Just. wow.

Pros: FAST, reasonable price for a quality SSD, Intel architecture

Cons: Still a bit pricey

Other Thoughts: I wont bother you with the benchmarks you can look elsewhere for that. What I will say is I cloned my RAID setup of win 7 ultimate onto this and it immediately adjusted itself for running on a SSD. My boot time went from 1.5 min to 17 seconds. End of story.

Pros: The best $200 you can spend to speed up everyday computing. Win 7 should be packaged with these. I can install Win 7 Pro 64 off a flash drive onto this in under 5 minutes on my new rig.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I added this along with win 7 64 to my Core 2 duo and it was a great upgrade for everyday computing. Everything loaded in 1-4 seconds.

Recently my rig mented down and replaced with I7, etc. and the speed for web and Office is no different since they are not processor dependent. Of course Premier and Lighroom are now much faster.

Pros: It is indeed an Intel X25. It says it right on the SSD. This is my first one, and I'm amazed at boot up and shut down speeds, as well as how much faster my laptop does everything in general. It consistently does 165MB/s sustained reads with HD Tach. The graphs shows a straight line with a couple of valleys, whereas my 320GB 7,200RPM mechanical does 70MB/s sustained reads and gets worse over the duration of the test. Beware that you're never going to get the read/write numbers that the manufacturer posts. Kind of like automobile manufacturers listing engine horsepower at the crank? I don't know.

Specs: Alienware M17x-R2, i7 920XM, 4GB RAM.

Cons: SSD are still a bit spendy, but 80GB is fine if you limit it to the OS, games, and programs. Get a mechanical for storage of music, videos, movies, etc.

Pros: Runs cool

Cons: Is not as fast as Intel's G2 drive. Intel G2 on HD Tune 2.55 gets max of 258 MB/sec and A-Data drive gets only 195 MB/sec on same notebook. Both have same firmware.

Pros: LOW power consumption making it ideal for use in laptops or netbooks. .75W active consumption compared to 2.25W for Platter drive.... Greatly extends battery life due to lower power consumption and no moving parts so fan does not come on very often as did before.... Xfer rates are great compared to HDD and other SSDs if you figure in power consumption levels. Most bang for your buck!

Cons: Not faster? Not Cheaper.... I'm clutching at straws to complain about anything....

Other Thoughts: IT IS A RE-BRANDED INTEL X-25M!!!!! Save yourself the $20 for the same thing.

I have mine installed in an ASUS 1000H Netbook with 2GB G-Skill 4 latency RAM..... Greatly improved performance, and works great with windows 7. Only bottleneck in system (other than graphics) is the N270 Intel Atom CPU.... I would upgrade if I could...

Pros: Extremely fast drive! This the first SSD I've ever used, so I can't compare with other SSDs. However, it has been running rock solid at alarming transfer rates. I used this puppy to replace my boot drive when my platter drive's boot sector went belly up on me.

I only installed my OS, utilities, office programs, browser, internet tools etc on this drive. This takes up about 40-50 Gigs. The rest I leave free for virtual memory space. I ONLY install big programs or games on my larger platter drives. This removes my need for a large (expensive) SSD, while leaving me plenty of space to store games, etc.

Since my OS, and all my swap space is on the SSD, my computer blazes something fierce. It boots up and shuts down in just a few moments. OS windows, browser, office programs and utilities blaze open when I need them almost before I can blink.

WinXP recognized the device instantly and had no trouble using it. Now I also no longer have to deal damaged platters.

Cons: The data cells in an SSD may have finite number of reads. But frankly, it's likely to last me much longer than a platter drive, at the rate that I typically trash them.

Other Thoughts: Using my platter drives mainly for storage will extend the lives of the platters, beyond the lifespan I've usually gotten out of them.

NOTE: If you're installing this into a tower PC as I did, you'll need some adapter brackets to fit it into your drive bays. While the brackets are priced high for what tiny little things they are, you can still find them affordably priced if you search well.

Pros: It's an Intel X25-M G2; it is labeled as such and recognized in Windows device manager as such. It will accept the latest Intel firmware. You can use Intel's SSD Toolbox (handy for TRIM in Windows XP).

Cons: Its installation did not result in world peace.

Other Thoughts: I installed this in a Windows 7 32-bit HP Elitebook 8510W, but the speed increase compared to my 500GB 7200RPM Hitachi drive was not worth the sacrifice in disk space. So I took it out and installed it in a Windows XP HP TC4400, where the increased speed compared to a 250GB Hitachi 7200 RPM drive was like night and day. HD Tach average read time in the TC4400 is 172mb/s.