Testseek.com have collected 230 expert reviews of the Intel 2.5 inch 520 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel 2.5 inch 520 Series SATA600.
February 2012
(84%)
230 Reviews
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The editors liked
Big capacity
SandForce controller
Terrific allround performance
Intel SSDs have a strong reputation for reliability
Speedy performance in most benchmarks
Intel's given the firmware a damn good polish
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 editors didn't like
Poor write speed
Expensive
Incompressible performance less than stellar
Same old SSD pricing problem
Write performance a little patchy
Not clearly faster than other SandForce drives
The Intel 520 Series SSD is comparatively expensive and its low-profile screws are not included
Abstract: The new Intel 520 solid state drive (codenamed Cherryville) represents Intel's first collaboration with SandForce (now owned by LSI Corporation). Like many solid state drives targeted at enthusiasts in the consumer market, it pairs the latest SandForc....
Super-fast, Available in a wide variety of capacities, Comprehensive software and accessory bundle
Per-gigabyte cost is a bit high, versus slower drives of same capacity
With stellar storage performance backed by extra care in the development of its controller, the SSD 520 is an easy choice for speed fiends with budget to spare. Read More...
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...
