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After the IDF (Intel Developer Forum), Intel was kind enough to release its ground breaking SSD for testing as part of its Nehalem platform reviews. Now most people today scoff at the idea of using SSD as a hard disk mainly because most SSD are only about 8GB or so, just barely enough to put the OS and the office suite. However, Intel's SSD is a whopping 80GBs which is about the size of a standard hard disk these days. While testing out Nehalem and its various boards we also got to play around with Intel's 80GB SSD and boy was it fun. Considering most 7200 RPM hard disks only get a score of about 4000+ in PCMark05, the SSD blew us out of the water with its score. Check it out below. For a full review of the drive and its Nehalem counterparts, check out the Hot off the Labs and our Nehalem board reviews in the latest issue of HWM.