Back in 2008, Intel rolled out their X25-M SSD and was met with much love and enthusiasm as, at the time, the SSDs on the market just weren't very good. Drive stuttering was rampant and performance was lackluster. The X25-M was a breath of fresh air that put a lot of pressure on others in the marketplace. As such, sales were brisk and the X25-M was the gold standard drive that all others were compared against. Competition breeds excellence and soon drives powered by Indilinx and SandForce were moving to the forefront in performance and in consumer's minds. The X25-M has been the SSD of choice for a lot of OEM machines when given an SSD option but it's getting a little long in the tooth even with the second generation refresh in 2009. With the third generation comes a name change to the 320 Series and is the successor to the X25-M. Intel sent us a 300 GB model prior to the March 28th launch to spend some time testing and using it to give our impressions.