X25-M

A couple weeks after, Intel indirectly confirmed the rumors by releasing a promotional video.

[2] Before the X25-M was released, all of the multi-level cell (MLC) drives were the same piece of hardware, but with a different company logo on it.

[citation needed] This is called rebranding, which happens often in the computer hardware market, but Intel opted to develop its own MLC drive.

The most notable feature about the X25-M is how well it performed in comparison to other MLC and single-level cell (SLC) SSDs.

Trim support gives the SSD the ability to take the memory that is marked to be deleted to erased immediately.

The problem was that certain X25-M G2 drives that shipped with the bugged (02G2) firmware gave difficulty to any users that used a BIOS HDD password.

[7] In late 2009, Intel released firmware that incorporated Trim support that further increased the speeds of the drive.