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Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB) review

		Product	Date	Editors' Rating	Members' Rating	Price
		Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB) The Fusion-io ioDrive is in a performance field of its own. Home users are much better off RAIDing a few SSDs together; however, for those running servers that need extra throughput now, the Fusion-io represents an expensive, but justifiable, saviour.	24 Jun 2009	9.5		£2000
		Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB) Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.	09 Oct 2008	8.3		£400
		Seagate FreeAgent Go Seagate's FreeAgent Go is our favourite portable hard drive to date, earning it an Editors' Choice award. The drive is well designed and fast, and you won't find better value for money.	30 Sep 2008	8.5		£76
		Western Digital Passport USB Hard Drive Western Digital's Passport Portable External Hard Drive lets you take a lot of data on the road for a low price.	18 Sep 2006	7.0		£79
		LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive 80GB LaCie's Rugged All-Terrain portable hard drive is an all-around winner: it's fast, durable and it boasts multiple connection options. This belongs in your laptop bag.	15 Aug 2006	8.3		£129
		Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition Maxtor's OneTouch III Turbo Edition packs in a lot of features and capabilities at a fair price. Among external desktop hard drives, it's a winner.	28 Mar 2006	8.0		£434
		LaCie Safe Mobile Hard Drive (80GB) The LaCie Safe Mobile Hard Drive's fingerprint recognition scanner makes it an excellent, inexpensive vehicle for moving large quantities of sensitive data.	29 Sep 2005	7.3		£149
		LaCie Silverscreen (80GB) The Silverscreen is a sluggish mobile hard drive with a useful entertainment feature -- it plays video and music directly to a TV.	24 Mar 2005	7.3		£265
		LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme with Triple Interface (160GB) This is the fastest, best-looking external hard drive we've tested to date, with FireWire 800 performance that's as cheap as its slower mainstream competition.	17 Feb 2005	8.0		£114
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