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Intel denies slowing solid state drives
Goes too fast for us
By Nick Farrell
Friday, 20 February 2009, 13:58
INTEL HAS DENIED that its solid state drives (SSD) start getting slower as they get older.
A review, with the catchy headline 'Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs' over at PC Perspectives claimed that the Intel X25-M drive degrades in performance as a result of "internal fragmentation" and that "a 'used' X25-M will always perform worse than a 'new' one".
However Chipzilla has denied the alleagation saying that its labs have been unable to duplicate the results.
It thinks the synthetic workloads they used to stress the drive were not reflective of what happens in real life. After all nothing gets slower as it gets older. µ |
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