We lift the lid on Intel's Pro 2500 SSD. Shock, horror: It doesn't use its own NAND chips Intel has been busy of late launching SSDs for both the consumer market and for the data centre/enterprise segments. But the dedicated business segment, which Intel addressed for the first time last year with the SSD Pro 1500, was the one area where it didn't introduce a new drive. With the launch of the SSD Pro 2500 series, …
Don't worry, he is using Windows Copy Time Predition™ to do the math. It means the controller got stuck waiting for Windows to tell it what to do for 35,96 seconds after first call, then proceeded to perform all the actual copying in 0,0396 seconds. Working as intended.
I'd use the troll icon, but I don't have any actual idea if any other OS would do the same.
Things like the page file aside it would take me (and most business computer users) decades, if not centuries, to write 30TB+ of data to the local disk in my PC at work. I would very much appreciate the speed of an SSD in it although with a 5 year old Celeron installed perhaps that shouldn't be my first priority...
Anyway, I can see it being an issue for workstation users who pull large amounts of data from file shares onto their local PC and then dump it back, but for general 'business use' they will be fine.
Obviously you wouldn't want to shove these in a heavily used server, SAN or NAS but 'business use' doesn't necessarily refer to datacenter use.
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