X18-M

Smaller 1. 8-inch X18-M drives will crest at 160GB and boot-focused X25-V drives will stop at

Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks 2010

X18-M (mainstream) 1. 8-inch SATA 80GB and 160GB products get replaced by 160GB and 300GB ones in Q1 2011; a busy quarter for Intel, using the 25nm MLC process.

The Register 2010

The X25-M SSDs for desktops and mainstream notebooks will be available in 160GB, 300GB and 600GB capacities, the X18-M drives for thin-and-light notebooks will offer 160GB and 300GB of storage space, whereas the value X25-V will provide 80GB of free capacity.

X-bit labs Anton Shilov 2010

I have two X18-M 80 GB (1st gen) in RAID0 on my ancient P965 motherboard (ICH8 chipset) and despite only having 2 GB of RAM and an E6400 C2D machine, it easily smokes any machine using mechanical drives I've ever used (even the fast workstation machines with quad cores and 16 GB of RAM) - for browsing, for photoshop, for gaming (load times).

The Tech Report: News 2010

The roadmap starts from four places, the current X18-M and X25-M and - V MLC and X25-E SLC products, and goes to five places.

The Register 2010

So on newegg theres a Dane-Elec kit with an X18-M G1 80gb drive with the 2.5 adapter and an external enclosure for $189.

The Tech Report: News 2010

Along with the unshackling of its newest offspring, Intel will cease manufacturing X18-M drives based on the 34nm and 50nm processes.

Softpedia News - Global Sebastian Pop 2010

(Intel X18-M SATA SSD 34nm products do not require this firmware update) and fixes the following two issues:

Tom's Hardware Forums - all 2010

The X25-M and X18-M appear to focus more on power management and in active mode will only sip 0. 25W.

Mobility Site 2009

According to the roadmap made available by vr-zone, there will be three capacities for the X18-M and the X25-M MLC SSD, specifically 80GB, 160GB and 320GB.

Softpedia News - Global 2009