Are these Benchmark numbers typical for an Intel X-18 (1.8") 80 GB SSD?

I have had this 80 GB Intel X-18 SSD for a while now, I took it out of an HP laptop that didn’t need the speed. It is a small 1.8” drive that uses the Micro SATA interface drive which means it operates on 3.3 Volts and you need a little adapter in order to hook up regular SATA power and data cables to it. I first thought I would use this as the boot disc in my new desktop that I am working on so I bought this StarTech.com Micro SATA to SATA Cable Adapter with Power - Serial ATA adapt and other IDE Drive Cables at CDW.com

Here is a picture of it attached to my drive



This worked perfect and allowed me to hook it up into my desktop and run it with no apparent issues. Well I decided that 80 GB was a little too small to be the primary drive in my beastly workstation and I wanted to run a RAID1 array so I decided to use two 500 GB Seagate 7200.12 drives instead. The SSD then sat unused for a while longer until I got my MacBook Pro about a month ago and love the performance except for the slow 500 GB 5400 RPM Fujitsu drive that comes with it, so I figured this little SSD would be perfect and I can live with 80 GB in my laptop. I then researched a nice little 1.8” to 2.5” drive caddy that also acts as a Micro SATA to SATA adapter, it is basically an enclosure for the SSD that makes it appear in size and connection wise the same as a normal 2.5” SATA HDD. Here is a link to it…

1.8 - 2.5 Drive Adapter 3.3v support (Micro-SATA to SATA) [SATA-MICROSATA3.3] - $35.75 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

And BTW for $40 shipped it is well worth the money, the diagram/picture on the website makes it look like some cheesy plastic cover goes over the top of the drive, but it is actually made out of a very nice aluminum that acts as a heat sink and keeps the drive protected as well, it even has an indentation on the top to add a manufactures sticker if you want, which would really make you unable to tell there is actually a 1.8” drive hiding inside. If you are looking to do this type of thing I highly recommend this adapter!

So finally to get to the point of my post, I stuck the drive in this adapter, hooked it up to my desktop and figured I would make sure it is recognized and run a few HDTach runs to make sure everything is OK before I put it in my MacBook. The results of the HDTach were the same as using my Startech adapter so that is good, but my question is they seem pretty damn high and I am not complaining at all, but in a few recent magazines I have they did SSD comparisons and not many have average reads of 225 MB/s or even burst speeds of 250 MB/s. This was a blank, newly partitioned drive that I was benching so I am sure it would be slower with data on it and if I was actually booting from it, but still one of the magazines said it benches its drives the same way, blank and newly formatted. So are these results typical for this little X-18 drive? If so this gem is a keeper as it is quite versatile and can be used in a normal notebook with the adapter or in a netbook or other smaller laptop that uses Micro SATA.



For those who cannot read the numbers in the picture…
Random Access: 0.1 ms
CPU Utilization: 4%
Average Read: 225.2 MB/s
Burst Speed: 250.6 MB/s

So please tell me what you think about these numbers and the idea of putting this drive in my MBP, are there any issues that I should be prepared to possibly run into? Or should it just be plug in and go? Oh I also planned to use SuperDuper to clone my drive onto the SSD first so when I install it I do not have to reload the OS, Apps, restore my data, ect. But I will post about that in another forum.

Thanks

 

tl;dr, all you're giving us is a sequential read speed, which is more or less typical for an X18-M. Just plug it in and go. It should act exactly like a standard hard drive with regard to OS installation/cloning, etc.