Intel 520 series 240GB SSD quick test.

[stulid]

Today I will be doing a quick unboxing and comparison test of this high end SSD vs my older Corsair ForceGT 120GB SSD

Product homepage - http://ark.intel.com/products/66250/Intel-SSD-520-Series-(240GB-2_5in-SATA-6Gbs-25nm-MLC)

OCUK product page - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-024-IN&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=1427


Tech specs:

Outer packaging:

Contents within:

The SSD:

Test system:

i5 3570K
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 4GB (2X2Gb)
Coolermaster Silent Gold 800w
Akasa SATAIII cabling throughout


ATTO Disk Benchmark:

AS SSD Benchmark:

Crystal Diskmark:

Conclusion:

Fast, 5 year warranty, nuff said.

 

[stulid]

Strange, your 4K writes in AS-SSD are almost twice as fast as mine. Everything else is pretty much the same though. Is your OS installed to this drive or is attached as a secondary drive? Has the drive been written to at all?

The OS is on it, its certainly been used but never filled up over the past couple of weeks.

 

[stulid]

Nice review but there is no reason to buy this over the Sansung 830 256GB. I have both and there is zero difference in use and the Samsung is half the price.

Its only money

I've tried a few SSD's now (C300, ForceGT, Plextor M2S which my brother now has) this Intel is a good'un.