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Intel 520 Series 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell February 6, 2012 Highlights-new, SSD Drives

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.1 x64.

Incompressible data performance is excellent, although we would expect write performance to increase noticeably when we change to ‘0x00' mode. Sequential read performance is excellent, averaging 483 MB/s. The Intel ‘tuned' firmware performs well with this benchmark.

As we do with all our SSD reviews, we enable ‘compressible’ data mode, called ’0×00′. The performance gains are as we would expect with a Sandforce controller, with sequential write performance increasing from 303 MB/s to 486 MB/s.

Above, some compares with other leading solid state drives which we have reviewed in the last couple of months.

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14 comments

  1. Simon
    February 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Intel warranty is good, I had a CPU fail on me, without overclocking it and it was replaced under their terms. I wuld trust intel more than anyone with my money. great drive.

  2. Francis
    February 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Looks like a good drive, but im surprised to see Intel moving to sandforce.

  3. David R
    February 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Good indeed ! the 60GB tempts me for my new system as boot drive.

  4. Uriel
    February 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    I wonder when a 240GB SSD like this will cost £299 inc vat. still some time off I fear 🙁

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