Is it worth upgrading from my Intel X-25M 2nd Gen?

I currently have an 80gb Intel X-25M 2nd Gen and was planning on putting it in my newly purchased HP DV6T (sandy bridge). Is it worth going with a current gen SSD? The big thing for me is bootup and application startup. All of my media files are on a separate HDD or on my unraid server.

 

Depends on your desire to troubleshoot a Gen 3 SSD.

Frankly I would wait until the problems with the Marvell and SF controllers are more sorted out.

They may (may is important) benchmark better but are nearly certain to cause more problems with the SB chipset than your X25-M.

 

Check out the OCZ Vertex 3 review in my signature. I say differences with X25-m are fairly small.

 

i vote keep the intel x25 if it's been good to you. why spend more money on when trusty is already in your hands?

 

the read speed is still very good compared to the new drives.

 

Thanks guys, it's a relief to know that for once, I don't need to play the tech catch up game.

 

I've been toying with the idea but as above it makes very little difference. I'm going to wait until things have stabilised with the new controllers.

 

Since my X220 came in with the new Intel X25-M SSD (working perfectly I might add) I have spent some time on the Intel SSD forum and there are problems with both the 320 and the 510. The 510 problems we see in these pages but apparently the 320 has a propensity to go from a working formatted state to an 8GB empty partition on a random power cycle. It can be recovered with a secure erase and reinstallation but why risk that. Early adopters do take risks (I suppose just as we have with our SB machines), so waiting it out makes sense unless you really need/want the advantage you might get.

And right now the X220 is working better with its older Intel SSD than the W520 with its newer Sata 3 Crucial SSDs.

 

I've never had an issue with either my Intel X25-M or 510. Or the Kingston SSD for that matter.