Intel’s 40 GB SSD X25-V is out there

January 14th, 2010

Want an SSD for a snip just over $120? That’s what you’ll have to stump up at Amazon to get your mits on Intel’s latest SSD offering, the 40GB X25-V SSD. Now 40 GB may not sound like a lot of zeroes and ones but the cunning plan would be to have your OS installed on your super-fast SSD and all your data on the old HDD. This means, in theory that your OS would fly along to free up time for you to actually ‘do stuff’ with your data on the machine. We’ve heard the plan before and we think it is a good idea and with small SSDs priced keenly it even becomes an affordable plan. Anyway should you choose Intel as your SSD provider here are the bits and pieces on their X25-V 40 GB SSD.

* Sustained Read/Write: 170/35 MB/s
* Power: 150mW active, 75mW idle
* 1.2 million hour MTBF
* Read Latency: 65 microseconds, write Latency: 110 microseconds
* 4.3 x 0.8 x 6.1 inches
* 4 ounces
* Model number: SSDSA2MP040G2R5
* Random 4 KB reads up to 25 K IOPS
* Random 4 KB writes up to 2.5 K IOPS

The X25-V is certainly one of the cheapest SSDs around but isn’t the fastest available. However for giving your machine’s OS a helping hand $120 is not a lot to pay. If you’re still keen check out Intel’s 40GB SSD over at Amazon where it also gained 4.5 stars out of 5.