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February 2012
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230 Reviews
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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...
Exceptionally strong performance up against OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS, Incredibly fast compressible speeds in our mixed-workload tests, Industry-leading reliability testing, Custom firmware and engineering shows its value
More expensive than other SandForce SF-2200-powered SSDs with synchronous NAND
When we reviewed the Intel SSD 510, we called it a comfortable pair of shoes due to the midrange performance but supreme reliability. If we're keeping with shoe references this time around, the SSD 520 is a great pair of running shoes with little rocket b...
The Intel SSD 520 Series is blazing fast, and right now, it is the fastest 2.5” SSD drive that we have tested. Depending on pricing, I expect it to be a very nice update to the Intel 510 Series, especially as it has hardware AES256 encryption and the warr...
