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No retail packaging with our sample, just a simple brown box with a ‘speed demon' sticker, and the drive enclosed in an anti static wrap.
The Intel 730 240GB Solid State Drive ships in an attractive little enclosure – with details listed on the underside. The full retail model of this drive is covered with a ‘skull sticker' shown on the first page of our review today.
Four screws hold the two sections of the chassis in place. There are thermal/protective pads on both sides.
The pictures above show two 105c rated 47 μF rated capacitors (along the bottom of the images), which are utilised for power loss protection. Above this are two 512MB DDR3 1600 DRAM chips. The rear of the PCB has eight NAND packages and the Intel PC29AS21CA0 controller, which as previously discussed, runs at 600mhz. The other side of the PCB would be populated if this was the 480GB model.
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I love Intel drives, the performance figures are only part of the story – most reliable drives by far. I still have an original Intel SSD from the 1st generation and its working fine.
I have had 3 OCZ and Corsair sandforce drives fails over a couple of a months, I will always be going back to Intel. ordering a 240GB or maybe a 480GB jackson ridge SSD in the coming months, depending if I can stretch to it.
I dont think in real world terms the write speed of 270Mb/s would be a huge issue, but for some future proofing and a boot drive, the 480GB seems a better bet. The slight price overhead due to the reliability enhancements is worth it.
Intel lover here too, reliability is very important for me, I wouldn’t risk the chance of losing data over £20 more than an OCZ or something else.
Any ideas when OCUK will have these in stock? just a preorder page atm
I have had 3 OCZ and Corsair sandforce drives fails over a couple of a months, I will always be going back to Intel. ordering a 240GB or maybe a 480GB jackson ridge SSD in the coming months, depending if I can stretch to it. http://num.to/457-287-619-226
im using the Intel sandforce based drive that works great for me and now i cant wait to get the 240 gb jackson ridge. love the reliability of intel.