XPS 16 Intel X25-E Extreme SSD?

I'm wondering if it will be relatively painless to install a Intel® X25-E Extreme SSD (32GB) in my XPS 16.

Does anyone know if it's compatible?

Thanks!

 

Should be. 2.5" drivers are all standard unless Dell did something funky with the XPS 16, which is not likely.

 

The only issue would be if the SXPS can actually use all of the speed of that SSD.

 

Why would'nt it be able to?

 

I put one in my 1340 and it is unbelievable fast. Took me all of ten minutes to, no problems at all.

 

It should be able to handle it. The effective full speed of the X25-E is about 250MB/s and does not saturate the nominal 300MB/s SATAII bandwidth. If you aren't looking to run any IO heavy applications, you're better off getting the bigger X25-M; the X25-M has similar read speeds and more than double the capacity; it just has less random write and IO capacity.

 

32 gb kinda small wont you say?

 

Ive been using a 32 GB SSD on my primary laptop/PC for about 1.5 yrs.. its definitely manageable. I keep all my working docs (Word, Excel, etc) on MS/SDHC cards. And i have several external USB 2.0 HDDs for media, DVD burning, and torrents.

If youre a media junkie, then, yea, its definitely too small.

 

For me, I only need one external 500GB with all of my Docs, media, torrents, etc.

I only store programs and program data on my primary. Right now with W7 x64 installed, I've still got 14GB left from my 30GB partition. I guess it's because I only use a handful of programs and they are small in size.

I like to keep it simple and find that it's better for me to condense the amount of programs I use. Also, I never use System Restore or sleep/hibernate.

 

I just installed my X25-E in my Dell SXPS 16 running W7 x64 b7048

I ran a quick HDTune bench and something's very wrong. I was expecting to atleast get an average of 190 read, but it's far less. I'm not sure if it's that my notebook cannot handle the speed, or maybe it's incompatible, or maybe the hdd's bad?

Any advice?

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ive been deating on getting a ssd for my 1340 as well just unsure because i download alot and im reading overtime the ssd seem to die quicker then ide/sata drives if you do alot of write/read tasks is this true

 

Did you figure out the problem? What are you going to do with the SSD, now?

 

I'm sending it back to Amazon for a refund and swapping my XPS 16 for another one with the 256gb SSD. It just seems like there is way more value for what you get. I think the 32gb is to small anyway lol. At least that way, the drive comes from Dell all configured and people have reported great speed.

Also, I'm switching from the 2.93ghz to the 2.66ghz to save a little money as I don't need the speed and it's just wasted.

After adjusting the colors for hours via ATI CCC, I think I have finally found a good compromise. I'm really not a pro graphics designer or anything, I don't even know how to use Photoshop (lol), but even so, the colors were just so off by default that it bugged me. Maybe my screen is defective though. It seems like the backlight bleed is getting worse on this thing as time goes on. hmm....

 

That isn't true, then again not all SSDs are created equal. SLC drives like the Intel X25-E (built for enterprise use and SLC technology has been around for a long time) will last longer than pretty much any HD out there, while MLC drives haven't been around long enough to know.

 

I had an XPS M1330 and installed highly aclaimed G.Skill Titan 256GB and now have the Dell 256GB Samsung factory installed in my Studio XPS 1340.
The Samsung is faster and and the transfer speeds are very predictable - no big spikes up or down. The Titan's transfer speeds were all over the map spiking high and dipping very low (ie 0). The Samsung uses a better controller - the Titan I think uses the notorious Jcoms in raid 0 - to get the speed up.
You will love the dependable speed of the Samsung.

 

try the lastest intel matrix sotrage drivers... see if that changes anything for you

http://www.station-drivers.com/tele...el_msm_8.8.0.1009(www.station-drivers.com.exe

 

I would say that i looks like its crippled to regular sata speed (not sata2).

Have you tried putting it in a desktop to see if its faster there?

 

I'm pretty sure I had the latest driver of this installed when I had the X25-E. One thing I probably should have tried is turning off power saver mode settings in vista etc. to try and boost it as much as possible.

I don't have a desktop, so can't test it that way. How would I enable it for SATA2? I looked in the BIOS and tried a couple options with no speed increase. There wasn't any option that I know about to make it SATA2 speed.

I already send it back to
amazon and I'm going to try the Dell samsung 256gb ssd now.