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February 2012
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230 Reviews
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The next version of Intel’s RST driver is supposed to bring TRIM to our RAID Arrays. This is the Holy Grail for RAID users. The problem now for RAID users is the performance degradation over time. SandForce drives are particularly susceptible to write ...
Intel did it again. They touched it, it turned to GOLD. I have tested so many drives this year it’s hard to remember them all; this drive however will not be hard to remember. Despite its small capacity and inherent trouble with incompressible data it...
You really can't go wrong with the Intel 520 Series drives. Intel has delivered one of the fastest drives amongst its competitors in the performance SSD market, and given the reliability history of the technology giant, we can safely say that Intel is rea...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, Excellent 4K random I/O performance, SATA 6Gbps support, The drive is supported by the excellent Intel SSD Toolbox, TRIM support under Windows 7, Lightni
Expensive.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance.Excellent 4K random I/O performance.SATA 6Gbps support.The drive is supported by th...
I am sure no one doubts that second-generation SandForce controllers are perhaps the best platform for modern SSDs in terms of performance. Thanks to on-the-fly data compression algorithms, SandForce-based SSDs with fast flash memory have always deliv...
The Intel 520 test model (240 GB version) has proved its worth in multiple tests and time and again, it landed in the top tiers of our database. Intel aims to offset the issues of reliability of SandForce-based SSDs by extensively modifying and testing th...
The 2.5-inch Intel 520 Series SSD supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and offers great performance. The drive is housed in an all-aluminum casing and comes with all you need to use it as a hard-drive replacement for a laptop (ultraportable or standard) or a desktop c
The Intel 520 Series SSD is comparatively expensive and its low-profile screws are not included
If priced a little lower, the Intel 520 Series SSD would be an ideal investment for those who want to greatly improve their computer's overall performance. For now, it's still an excellent drive.
s The Intel name might have created some increased expectations. After all, they have been killing it with almost all their CPU releases in the last few years. However, even though it should have improved durability and reliability (and only time will ...
Abstract: Intel Monday started shipping its fastest solid-state drive (SSD), the first to use the SandForce (now LSI) SFI-2281 NAND flash controller, which promises 500MB/sec-plus performance. "We believe high-RPM hard drives are dead," said Troy Winslow, direct...
