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
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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: What makes one SandForce-based SSD different from the others that appear to be just like it? We round up 10 models with 60 GB of capacity to explore the effects of NAND interfaces. We also stumble across some interesting data related to full drives. Ha...
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For many, the fact that there is the Intel name on a Sandforce controllers drive will allay some of the fears that people might have over the controller's sometimes notorious reliability issues in previous incarnations. It’s a fast drive all right bu...
SandForce is a superb SSD controller and the Intel 520 is a formidable new entrant to the performance PC/laptop arena. We love every aspect of this drive with one notable exception and that is the horribly high price. ...
Class leading performance, 5 year warranty, good with both compressible and incompressible data,
not quite as fast as the latest Samsung drives when reading incompressible data, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, Share, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tags Intel 520 Series Intel 520 Series 240GB Intel 520 Seri
Our original review of the Intel 520 Series 240GB earlier this week concluded that this drive should be right at the top of your shortlist when contemplating the purchase of a new, high capacity solid state drive.Our view on this hasn't suddenly changed t...
When this drive first came in we said that we had high expectations of it based on Intel's technical abilities and the performance of their older 320 series SSD, and to say the least we are not disappointed.With the SandForce controller paired with Intel'...
Class leading performance, 5 year warranty, good with both compressible and incompressible data,
not quite as fast as the latest Samsung drives when reading imcompressible data, Rating: 9.0, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, Share, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tags cherryville Intel 240GB Intel 520 240GB Intel 520 240G
The Intel 520 Series 240GB is one of the fastest solid state drives on the market, right at the very top of our group test beside the Patriot Wildfire 240GB and Vertex 3 240GB MAX IOPS. There is no doubt that Intel's custom validated firmware has been fin...
Abstract: If you thought that Intel had conceded the high-end SSD market to its competition, you were wrong. The company's new SSD 520 centers on SandForce's SF-2281 controller, incorporates top-bin IMFT NAND, and is protected by a five-year warranty. Many of th...
