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If you transfer an existing troubled OS+apps installation on a very fast drive you don't gain much. People who did clean installs seem to be very happy.
 
It was a great choice; it does get slowed down a bit after a lot of use when all the cells are written; today I performed a secure wipe (via HDD Erase 3.3—took only 1 minute and 17 seconds to do a full zero wipe on the drive) and now the drive is back to factory speeds.

I love this drive.
 
alphaod said:
It was a great choice; it does get slowed down a bit after a lot of use when all the cells are written; today I performed a secure wipe (via HDD Erase 3.3—took only 1 minute and 17 seconds to do a full zero wipe on the drive) and now the drive is back to factory speeds.

I love this drive.

Hi alphaod, are you using the new firmware? I reckon the new firmware doesn't slow Intel X25-M's on aging. The one you describe is an old problem that was fixed by a firmware ages ago. So no need to do full zero wipe.
 

I'm confused too :)

I COULD NOT recommend it more...the X-25M is awesome, mind-blowing, amazing, etc.

I don't think a single piece of equipment has ever impacted my computer operations or impressed me more than this SSD.
 
Hi alphaod, are you using the new firmware? I reckon the new firmware doesn't slow Intel X25-M's on aging. The one you describe is an old problem that was fixed by a firmware ages ago. So no need to do full zero wipe.

Well the new firmware slows down the "aging" issue but does not stop it from happening altogether; by doing the zero wipe and reset, it resets it to factory condition.

Besides the whole process only took about 50 minutes with 1 minute for a wipe, 45 minutes to restore from backup, and 4 minutes to do some cleaning up.
 
I would hold off on buying; the price is supposed to drop on these any day now when the 34nm versions ship.
 
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