Intel 520 Series 240GB (Raid 0 update) SSD Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell February 9, 2012 Featured Announcement, SSD Drives

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Performance in ATTO is great, and we record around 1 GB/s with both read and write tests. This slots the Intel Series 520 RAID 0 configuration in right behind the OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB.

Above, some comparison results from other leading drives currently available on the market today.

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12 comments

Booke
February 9, 2012 at 1:14 pm

Id be happy if I could afford one of these, never mind two. nice performance. im off to cry in a corner.
Jerome B
February 9, 2012 at 1:15 pm

Work well in RAID 0, but £800 was more than my last system cost. still we can dream, right?
max
February 9, 2012 at 6:38 pm

These are amazing SSD drives provided by intel.

Check it out on amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VCP9G6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=emjay2d-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006VCP9G6
tuney
February 16, 2012 at 11:17 am

You missed a huge performance gain by not installing an intel rst version.
rapid storage technology gives a boost to the low/mid size file transfer rates which really makes a windows based operating system fly.
always only use the rst version from the boards download page along w/ being on the latest bios.
one little glitch to know about; most times write back cache is disabled by default.
open rst/click volume icon/toggle write back cache on/off/on.
re-run the atto bench and look for the big performance gain.