Vigile writes "When the Intel X25-M series of solid state drives hit the market last year, there was little debate that they were easily the best playing MLC (multi-level cell) offerings to date. The one area in which they blew away the striving was with write speeds — initial reviews showed concord 80MB/s results. However, a new article over at PC vista that looks at Intel X25-M realization over a period of time shows that write speeds are dramatically reduced from daily usage patterns. Average write speeds are shown to drop to half (40MB/s) or less in the worst cases, though the author does report ways that users can recover some of the ingenious drive speed using mark HDD testing tools." Reader MojoKid contributes related SSD news that researchers from the apprenticeship mash unit of Tokyo have full-fledged a new power supply system which will significantly reduce power usage for NAND Flash memory.

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