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February 2012
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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
Choice is good though. The Intel Series 520 SSD 240GB model as tested today is an incredible sexy and high performing product, it's late to a crowded SandForce 2281 market though. Intel certainly holds ground amongst the competition, though I dare to stat...
Excellent performance. The speed of SandForce's latest controller with the backing of Intel's testing and firmware validation
A tad more expensive than other similar drives. SSDs in general are still limited in storage capacity given the premium you pay per gigabyte
The last great SSD that we tested carrying 100% Intel tech was the SSD 310 Series. This drive was later replaced by the not too exciting SSD 320 Series, which was still limited to the SATA 3Gb/s interface. The SSD 510 Series came about last year using...
Big performance jump over the X25-M, five year warranty
What the original 510 Series should have been
Intel's 240GB 520 Series SSD drive is fast and, assuming there are no surprises from Intel regarding our unit's random read results, if you have an X25-M SSD drive and are thinking of upgrading, there's very little reason not to.Compared to Intel's X25-M...
Excellent performance across the board, Good software bundle, 5 year warranty
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Intel's plan in 2012 is to bring the SSD to wide market segments. It is clear with the SSD 520's wide selection of storage capacity that Intel wants to incorporate every system with an SSD. The Intel SSD 520 is a good start from Intel leading the perf...
Considering that the Intel 520 Series solid state drive uses the same Sandforce SF-2281 controller as the Kingston HyperX and OCZ Vertex 3 MI, it's not surprising that the results we recorded are quite similar in a number of the tests.All four of the driv...
Best performing SandForcedriven SSD we've tested to date, Extensive reliability validation testing, 5year warranty,
Low IOPS at low Queue Depths (limitation of SandForce hardware), Intro pricing on the high side.
Intel appears to be making a habit out of adopting other SSD controllers and revamping their firmware to make them their own. From what we've seen today, they are indeed very good at it. This is the best performance we've seen out of SandForce hardwar...
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Published: 2012-02-06, Author: Lucas , review by: techworld.com
Overall, Intel has come out with a very fast drive that will save your battery, save your wallet (at least in terms of SSD cost) and provide some great data protection and compression features....
I've been a fan of SandForce's technology since it first showed up in OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro in late 2009. Performance has never been an issue with SandForce and because of the fact that the controller writes less than its competitors, the controller and driv...
Abstract: Having tested some of the fastest computer systems available today, it takes a lot to impress us here in the CRN Test Center. But the out-of-the-box performance of Intel's Solid-State Drive 520 Series, the company's latest line of SATA III SSDs for con...
The first, err, actually second thing that crossed my mind after seeing the performance figures is that this is going to be one of those rare "have your cake and eat it too" products. The first actually was that I wanted one in my own desktop. Specifi...
