Intel officially unveiled the new X25-M SSD series. We already knew about the 34 nm engraving process used to produce the memory chips, the huge price cut 60% down, and the reading performance around 250 MB/s, and writing speed now at 85 MB/s; but now those SSDs will be faster in random writing process for small files (4 KB). The new X25-M can now manage 6000 files per second vs 3000 for he previous generation. This is a critical point as most modern OS, including Mac OS X, are massively writing small files on drives to speed up their processes. Intel also announced the future support of the TRIM command on its SSD. It will be added to existing SSDs via a firmware update from Windows 7 release. For Mac OS X, we can only expect that Apple will support too at least in Snow Leopard, as some Apple hardware are already shipping with SSD.
