Intel SSD Pro 2500 (240GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on July 30, 2014 5:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
In our 2011 Storage Benches the Pro 2500 does not do as well. The SF-2281 used to be a good drive in terms of peak IO a couple of years ago, but nowadays modern controllers and firmware dominate it.
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mmrezaie - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
good for samsung.CrystalBay - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
Good article as always Hellhound, Yes 850 P is wanted .AnnonymousCoward - Thursday, July 31, 2014 - link
As always, not a single real world test to tell us the tangible difference of this drive versus others.hojnikb - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
Intel really dropped the ball on whole consumer ssd business.And now this drive. This thing doesn't even have a single intel component inside. So pretty much, this is a Sandforce drive with Intel badge on it.
Krysto - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
Intel has dropped the ball on all consumer markets lately. They're losing billions a year subsidizing Atom, just to be price-competitive with ARM chips, and now they're a full year behind with Broadwell, which won't see mainstream shipping until first half of 2015. Also, Broadwell sucks, too. But that won't stop Intel from making bombastic claims about it, which I can already see ("HALF the power consumption of Haswell" - but with much lower performance, which we won't tell you about, until you've already been suckered into buying one).tarqsharq - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
I remember when they slipped up with the P4 "NetBurst" architecture. Trying to win the Ghz wars.Maybe AMD will have a chance to come back on the chip end, I like their low end solutions that are coming out, and I miss being able to be an AMD fan boy and not be ignoring reality.
hojnikb - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
> They're losing billions a year subsidizing Atom, just to be price-competitive with ARM chips, and now they're a full year behind with Broadwell, which won't see mainstream shipping until first half of 2015.Heh, i was not aware of that. It seems, that Intel needs to put its priorities right. :)
nonoverclock - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
Wow. Exaggerate much and have an axe to grind? "Losing billions a year"? "Broadwell sucks, too" - I haven't read that review yet can you link to it?extide - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
I think Krysto takes Charlie as "FullyAccurate" hahahaAlthough, I do think Intel just needs to ditch Atom and come up with a custom IP ARM core, build a SoC out of it, put gen 7 graphics, a modern radio, etc. It will be great!
Samus - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - link
Intel is the second most profitable tech company in the world, only beaten by Apple. I don't think the SSD business is their priority anymore. They did their job with the X25, jump starting the SSD race. They needed to do this because hard disks were becoming such a bottleneck that it was literally holding them back from selling performance CPU's.I predict they will exit the SSD market now that they've propped it up. This drive is clear proof of just that.