Intel's mSATA SSD 310 reviewed: a pint-size performer through and through

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The forecast for speedy, razor-thin laptops is looking pretty sunny
right about now, because it seems Intel's SSD 310 truly does bring the
power of a full-sized solid state drive on a tiny little board.
Storage Review and The SSD Review thoroughly benchmarked the tiny 80GB
mSATA module this week, and found it performs even better than
advertised -- easily tearing through 200MB / sec reads and 70 MB / sec
writes -- which put it slightly behind Intel's legendary X25-M series
but well ahead of the company's X25-V boot drives. While we're still
not seeing Sandforce speeds from Intel's tried-and-true controller and
34nm silicon and they might not make Toshiba's Blade run for the
hills, we can't wait to test it out in some new Lenovo ThinkPads when
they integrate the SSD 310 later this year. Oh, by the way, that big
green board up above isn't the drive. It's actually the tiny one on top.