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Квазар-3TYYU
06.12.2012
6/10
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As far as read speeds, everything is pretty fantastic. Benchmarking reaches about 470MB/s. Windows boots so fast that the Windows logo doesn't even get to finish forming before the next screen and the Windows startup sound is cut short as the computer blazes through load screens. Programs load very fast even upon first time runs...like they were already loaded into memory and then some.But when I used CrystalDiskBenchmark, my write speed was only about 80MB/s. Sure enough, I tried copying a large folder from one area of the drive to the other and Win 7 showed a consistent write speed of about 80MB/s. I called tech support which is of course out of the country (Costa Rica) and unable to do anything but read from a script. They told me I needed to use a benchmarking tool that uses compressible data. So I did, and of course the MAX write speed on one out of a dozen tests that were performed reached about 500MB/s write speed. That's cool and all, but obviously that's not the type of data being used by Win 7 for normal tasks, so why is that data used to advertise Intel's write speeds? Oh, because it's like 6X what the drive will actually be performing at in your computer. I thought this was pretty shady, and since I actually do copy large files fairly often, I had to take off two stars for poor performance and really useless tech support.TECH SUPPORT + UPDATE: They are so useless that they didn't even suggest I update my SATA controller by downloading and installing the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver. This is different than the drive's firmware. This seems to have increased my write speeds to hovering right about 100MB/s (still about 400MB/s) under what the box claims I should expect. Oh well.
Сатурниан-8GDJX
06.12.2012
6/10
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Плохо
As far as read speeds, everything is pretty fantastic. Benchmarking reaches about 470MB/s. Windows boots so fast that the Windows logo doesn't even get to finish forming before the next screen and the Windows startup sound is cut short as the computer blazes through load screens. Programs load very fast even upon first time runs...like they were already loaded into memory and then some.But when I used CrystalDiskBenchmark, my write speed was only about 80MB/s. Sure enough, I tried copying a large folder from one area of the drive to the other and Win 7 showed a consistent write speed of about 80MB/s. I called tech support which is of course out of the country (Costa Rica) and unable to do anything but read from a script. They told me I needed to use a benchmarking tool that uses compressible data. So I did, and of course the MAX write speed on one out of a dozen tests that were performed reached about 500MB/s write speed. That's cool and all, but obviously that's not the type of data being used by Win 7 for normal tasks, so why is that data used to advertise Intel's write speeds? Oh, because it's like 6X what the drive will actually be performing at in your computer. I thought this was pretty shady, and since I actually do copy large files fairly often, I had to take off two stars for poor performance and really useless tech support.TECH SUPPORT + UPDATE: They are so useless that they didn't even suggest I update my SATA controller by downloading and installing the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver. This is different than the drive's firmware. This seems to have increased my write speeds to hovering right about 100MB/s (still about 400MB/s) under what the box claims I should expect. Oh well.
ТерраБот-0XRMJ
07.04.2013
4/10
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Not impressed.When it does boot to W7 is does so very fast and the PC runs very fast, BUT and it is a big BUTthe SSD often freezes (up to 3 minutes) at the "starting windows" logo and will often freeze when launching programs and does not seem to be any specific program but random.In searching for a solution there are a lot of user forums that suggest modifications to the registry that may or may not help this issue. I am not comfortable messing with the registry and don't feel that I should be in there anyway, the device should just work.From what I have read, intel support is just about nonexistent, even on the Intel forum where this issue is mentioned a lot there is little or no advice from Intel staff.See page 4 post by Paul Tikkanen on Intel forum [...]for a possible solution that worked (so far) for me by updating the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller driver, Windows would not do it automatically for me.It would appear that a lot of people are choosing Crucial and OCZ Vertex 4 SSD after returning the Intel over this issue and are reporting little or no freezing issues with these 2 brands.I would suggest that you do your own research before you buy rather than trusting the Intel name as I did.
Спектр-8HEBD
07.04.2013
4/10
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Not impressed.When it does boot to W7 is does so very fast and the PC runs very fast, BUT and it is a big BUTthe SSD often freezes (up to 3 minutes) at the "starting windows" logo and will often freeze when launching programs and does not seem to be any specific program but random.In searching for a solution there are a lot of user forums that suggest modifications to the registry that may or may not help this issue. I am not comfortable messing with the registry and don't feel that I should be in there anyway, the device should just work.From what I have read, intel support is just about nonexistent, even on the Intel forum where this issue is mentioned a lot there is little or no advice from Intel staff.See page 4 post by Paul Tikkanen on Intel forum [...]for a possible solution that worked (so far) for me by updating the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller driver, Windows would not do it automatically for me.It would appear that a lot of people are choosing Crucial and OCZ Vertex 4 SSD after returning the Intel over this issue and are reporting little or no freezing issues with these 2 brands.I would suggest that you do your own research before you buy rather than trusting the Intel name as I did.
ОмниКод-3DZFB
14.09.2012
2/10
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Thoroughly checked reviews for SSDs finally concluding that the Intel 520 Series would be the first SSD to make it into a new build. This was based on two major factors: reliability due to Intel's obsession with making SanForce reliable and performance which is up there with the best. Installed fine, seemed to run OK. Took a bit to get the Toolbox working but accomplished. Then I noticed that the OS load time, though much faster than with a HD, did not compare with that of a friend's machine. After diligent search & review, decided to run the AS SSD set of bmks. (Yes, there are others such as IOMETER but AS SSD has several advantages for SSDs. Besides, there is a lot of bmk data out there on the 520 using this utility.) Discovered that the performance of my SSD was a full 200 points (total score; specific r/w, access, etc. were all lower of course) below that widely reported and, most interesting, actually went down after a "cleaning" i.e. get rid of temp files, etc. etc. and run Toolbox. Sent two e-mails to the vendor (One Stop) which went unanswered over a couple of week period. Filed for RMA which got their attention. They wanted tech support to talk to me so we did. Tech support validated the install (correct SATA port on the ASUS P9X79 PRO mbo, etc.) and readily agreed that, although allegedly freshly packaged, something was not right and that the item might indeed be defective. Worried over the outcome of the bmks, I went for refund rather than replacement. Next day, email from vendor said item was not defective and, by the way, the warranty is over so no RMA. Thus, this review is more to express concern over the supplier than the actual device. This would not be a big issue except for the 180. As a result of no RMA, I will replace it with another from another source.
Вектрон-9OGZB
14.09.2012
2/10
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Thoroughly checked reviews for SSDs finally concluding that the Intel 520 Series would be the first SSD to make it into a new build. This was based on two major factors: reliability due to Intel's obsession with making SanForce reliable and performance which is up there with the best. Installed fine, seemed to run OK. Took a bit to get the Toolbox working but accomplished. Then I noticed that the OS load time, though much faster than with a HD, did not compare with that of a friend's machine. After diligent search & review, decided to run the AS SSD set of bmks. (Yes, there are others such as IOMETER but AS SSD has several advantages for SSDs. Besides, there is a lot of bmk data out there on the 520 using this utility.) Discovered that the performance of my SSD was a full 200 points (total score; specific r/w, access, etc. were all lower of course) below that widely reported and, most interesting, actually went down after a "cleaning" i.e. get rid of temp files, etc. etc. and run Toolbox. Sent two e-mails to the vendor (One Stop) which went unanswered over a couple of week period. Filed for RMA which got their attention. They wanted tech support to talk to me so we did. Tech support validated the install (correct SATA port on the ASUS P9X79 PRO mbo, etc.) and readily agreed that, although allegedly freshly packaged, something was not right and that the item might indeed be defective. Worried over the outcome of the bmks, I went for refund rather than replacement. Next day, email from vendor said item was not defective and, by the way, the warranty is over so no RMA. Thus, this review is more to express concern over the supplier than the actual device. This would not be a big issue except for the 180. As a result of no RMA, I will replace it with another from another source.
Астероид-3VCIW
02.09.2011
4/10
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I have been using 3 SSD drives for about 6 weeks now and have a mixed bag of feelings... For previous stories see [...]I have two laptops having 80GB and 160GB drives installed, both running Windows XP, and one desktop 320GB with Vista on it. The drives are about 60 - 70 % full, with lots of daily activity going on. I had the "Toolbox Optimization utility", aka TRIM guy, scheduled to run twice a week. The laptops got very fast, not doubt about it!Here is what has happened to me:1. System #1, 160GB, lots of code installs and data movement, suddenly got slow, XP froze. Multiple boot attempts got through to various stages of the system being loaded. After about 3 of them decided to boot standalone Acronis True Image and was able to pull a backup image off the SDD drive. Then tried to boot the system a few times, ended up with "No system disk found".Replaced the SDD with a regular drive, restored the backup image, was back in business in about 3 hrs, sweating and swearing a lot. Connected the SSD drive over USB, the system would not even detect it, looked like fried electronically. Checked the restored drive for fragmentation: the picture showed sectors used all the way up to the drives capacity, with lots of holes in between. So... did it run out of free sectors while it was on SSD?Luckily still within 30-day "no questions asked" return policy from Amazon, got the drive replaced the next day. Repeated the SSD installation procedure, booted off it and never had any problems since then (3 weeks). I am very careful now to run the TRIM utility before and after any task involving large amounts of data. Have it set to run 3 times a week automatically. Reasonably happy.2. System #2: 80GB, medium activity. System got slower, reported booting error, repeated boot got me through. Remembering the lesson from system #1, fired up TRIM utility (set to run twice a week anyway), the moment it started spinning, even before getting to 1% checked, POOF! The system froze and I got the "blue screen of death". "No system disk" on boot attempt. Found the original disk, replaced, booted OK, except data was a month old as I was not keeping up with backups (ever heard of a failing SSD drive?!, nah... right...). Connected the SSD drive via USB: seems to work electronically, data recovery utilities did not find a single file on it, it is totally GONE! Lesson learned: keep current backup! I am about to exercise the 5 years warranty rights from Intel and give it another try... Totally not happy.3. My system #3, desktop using a 320GB SSD: running Vista happily for 6 weeks now. I diligently run the TRIM utility and backups twice a week. Very happy with performance, so-so happy otherwise because I constantly need to watch what I am doing.Anyway, I wanted to share my experience with you all and ask the big question: should people be using SSD drives with systems which do not have an automatic TRIM capability? I think this is quite dangerous, despite Intel not saying anything about such dangers of the drives going completely kaputt when they run out of free sectors.
Вояджер-8PYOG
20.09.2012
10/10
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I am very impressed with this product. I installed it in less than 2 hours including the cloning of my existing hard drive. You will see a miraculous difference in startup time for bootup and in starting applications.One issue I would like to point out. The included software used to copy my existing hard disk would not allow me to keep the Windows 7 System Reserved partition at 100 MB in size. It insisted on shrinking it to 27 MB of space actually used. I tried to override this to no avail by using the custom options of the migration software but it would not let me make this larger. I'd like to point out that I have over 25 years of experience in working with and developing software and I could not find an option in the migration software that would let me do this. So if it exists then there is either a bug in the software or it is not documented clearly.So I let the migration software do the copy with only 27 MB for the reserved partition. No problem right. Well almost. Everything works fine except the Windows 7 Backup will fail as it needs at least 50 MB of free space in any partition it will back up. Also, the Windows 7 Backup will not allow you to skip backing up the reserved partition along with your C: drive. So Windows 7 backup will not work after the migration.So to solve this problem I first tried using Ghost 15 from Symantec to no avail. I purchased a copy of Acronis Disk Director 11 Home from Amazon that allowed me to resize the System Reserved partion and get the backup working. Actually using this Disk Director tool and the builtin Windows 7 partition tools did the job.Normally I don't write many reviews but hopefully this will help others that run into this issue. I plan to notify Intel as well about this.
МехаРейнджер-2IEJK
20.09.2012
10/10
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I am very impressed with this product. I installed it in less than 2 hours including the cloning of my existing hard drive. You will see a miraculous difference in startup time for bootup and in starting applications.One issue I would like to point out. The included software used to copy my existing hard disk would not allow me to keep the Windows 7 System Reserved partition at 100 MB in size. It insisted on shrinking it to 27 MB of space actually used. I tried to override this to no avail by using the custom options of the migration software but it would not let me make this larger. I'd like to point out that I have over 25 years of experience in working with and developing software and I could not find an option in the migration software that would let me do this. So if it exists then there is either a bug in the software or it is not documented clearly.So I let the migration software do the copy with only 27 MB for the reserved partition. No problem right. Well almost. Everything works fine except the Windows 7 Backup will fail as it needs at least 50 MB of free space in any partition it will back up. Also, the Windows 7 Backup will not allow you to skip backing up the reserved partition along with your C: drive. So Windows 7 backup will not work after the migration.So to solve this problem I first tried using Ghost 15 from Symantec to no avail. I purchased a copy of Acronis Disk Director 11 Home from Amazon that allowed me to resize the System Reserved partion and get the backup working. Actually using this Disk Director tool and the builtin Windows 7 partition tools did the job.Normally I don't write many reviews but hopefully this will help others that run into this issue. I plan to notify Intel as well about this.
ХроноГость-4VNTD
19.01.2013
4/10
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Mine was an isolated case and shouldn't turn everyone off to this drive. I've used other Intel SSDs (X-25M, pre-Sandforce) for years with no problem. My issues with this drive are purely anecdotal. Here's what happened...The plan was to mirror my current SSD onto this in an external enclosure with Carbon Copy Cloner. It seemed to work fine and the transfer rate was quite quick. About 85% into the process, the drive died and was no longer seen by any of my machines, either in this or other external enclosures or connected direct to a mobo via a SATA cable. In the case of connecting to the mobo, the machines would hang on boot. A quick google session found similar cases on drive failure.I purchased through Oyen Digital in St. Paul, MN (here on Amazon). They were responsive and helpful in getting the drive RMA'ed.I opted to replace this with a Samsung 840 Pro.Again, I'm sure these Intels are fine and reliable drives generally speaking (520s anyway, the 335s are seeing issues of their own), despite the performance hit on uncompressible data (relative to other modern SSDs) and the degradation they see after they get some age on them. Yes, I realize the Samsung is somewhat unproven given its newness, but this one experience was enough to make me avoid the Sandforce-based Intels.
Странник-3PPLY
19.01.2013
4/10
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Mine was an isolated case and shouldn't turn everyone off to this drive. I've used other Intel SSDs (X-25M, pre-Sandforce) for years with no problem. My issues with this drive are purely anecdotal. Here's what happened...The plan was to mirror my current SSD onto this in an external enclosure with Carbon Copy Cloner. It seemed to work fine and the transfer rate was quite quick. About 85% into the process, the drive died and was no longer seen by any of my machines, either in this or other external enclosures or connected direct to a mobo via a SATA cable. In the case of connecting to the mobo, the machines would hang on boot. A quick google session found similar cases on drive failure.I purchased through Oyen Digital in St. Paul, MN (here on Amazon). They were responsive and helpful in getting the drive RMA'ed.I opted to replace this with a Samsung 840 Pro.Again, I'm sure these Intels are fine and reliable drives generally speaking (520s anyway, the 335s are seeing issues of their own), despite the performance hit on uncompressible data (relative to other modern SSDs) and the degradation they see after they get some age on them. Yes, I realize the Samsung is somewhat unproven given its newness, but this one experience was enough to make me avoid the Sandforce-based Intels.
Плазмоид-3ZFVW
13.02.2013
4/10
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Lets start with the good:The drive is fast and like this generation of SSDs that is really not something that is uncommon. I expected very high read/write results and I got themThe bad:The reason I chose Intel SSD was because of their reliability and firmware stability. I was wondering between this and Samsung 840 pro, but the later was a bit more expensive. Right now, I'm hitting myself hard in the head for not shoving a couple of extra $$$ to get the Samsung 840 pro. From the start of Windows this SSD has been like a plague with it's freezing and BSOD. Every 30-60 seconds I got BSOD like clockwork. Just awful and really aggravating.I searched hundreds of threads online (too late) to find out that this is a know issue with this SSD and STILL NOT RESOLVED by Intel. This issue has been on for months !!! I finally was able to find a "fix" that seems to solve the issue for now, but as I read, some of the owners still experience these problems with this fix.This is a HUGE minus in my book for Intel and because of this, I'm no longer going to buy any SSD from them.Search Intel 520 BSOD F4 online before buying this SSD to get a better understanding whether you should commit to this SSD
НоваГость-4QVNY
13.02.2013
4/10
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Lets start with the good:The drive is fast and like this generation of SSDs that is really not something that is uncommon. I expected very high read/write results and I got themThe bad:The reason I chose Intel SSD was because of their reliability and firmware stability. I was wondering between this and Samsung 840 pro, but the later was a bit more expensive. Right now, I'm hitting myself hard in the head for not shoving a couple of extra $$$ to get the Samsung 840 pro. From the start of Windows this SSD has been like a plague with it's freezing and BSOD. Every 30-60 seconds I got BSOD like clockwork. Just awful and really aggravating.I searched hundreds of threads online (too late) to find out that this is a know issue with this SSD and STILL NOT RESOLVED by Intel. This issue has been on for months !!! I finally was able to find a "fix" that seems to solve the issue for now, but as I read, some of the owners still experience these problems with this fix.This is a HUGE minus in my book for Intel and because of this, I'm no longer going to buy any SSD from them.Search Intel 520 BSOD F4 online before buying this SSD to get a better understanding whether you should commit to this SSD
Лунатик-5HHZB
12.12.2012
10/10
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Ordered the drive and it arrived on the second day, a little cold having been sitting on the porch all day. Followed the install PDF on the mini cd that came with the drive. It said to download the migration software from Intel which I did. Next I put the drive inside my PC and attached to available power. I attached the included SATA cable to one of my two 6GB SATA ports on the motherboard. My motherboard has another 4 3GB SATA ports and all were used; one by a Vertex 2 80GB C: drive and the rest by a Western Digital disk and a pair of DVD drives. Powered PC up and Windows Device Manager sees the new Intel 520 240GB SSD. So I run the migration software installer. It failed to create a shortcut on my Windows desktop which threw me for a minute. But I found the program under my Program Files (x86)/Intel folder. I ran the migrate program and it has a nice UI, very simple. I cloned the Vertex 2 over to the new Intel drive. Took about 5-10 minutes. When done I swapped the SATA cables between the Vertex and the Intel as instructed. Upon reboot the PC couldnt' find the BOOTMGR and halted. After awhile I figured out this was because of my other Western Digital drive in there. I found the BIOS setting to boot on the Intel and it started. Then I switched the Intel drive back to the SATA 6GB port, had to adjust the BIOS one more time, and now I'm up and running on the new Intel SSD with more space.
ТерраБот-5KUDC
12.12.2012
10/10
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Ordered the drive and it arrived on the second day, a little cold having been sitting on the porch all day. Followed the install PDF on the mini cd that came with the drive. It said to download the migration software from Intel which I did. Next I put the drive inside my PC and attached to available power. I attached the included SATA cable to one of my two 6GB SATA ports on the motherboard. My motherboard has another 4 3GB SATA ports and all were used; one by a Vertex 2 80GB C: drive and the rest by a Western Digital disk and a pair of DVD drives. Powered PC up and Windows Device Manager sees the new Intel 520 240GB SSD. So I run the migration software installer. It failed to create a shortcut on my Windows desktop which threw me for a minute. But I found the program under my Program Files (x86)/Intel folder. I ran the migrate program and it has a nice UI, very simple. I cloned the Vertex 2 over to the new Intel drive. Took about 5-10 minutes. When done I swapped the SATA cables between the Vertex and the Intel as instructed. Upon reboot the PC couldnt' find the BOOTMGR and halted. After awhile I figured out this was because of my other Western Digital drive in there. I found the BIOS setting to boot on the Intel and it started. Then I switched the Intel drive back to the SATA 6GB port, had to adjust the BIOS one more time, and now I'm up and running on the new Intel SSD with more space.
Супернова-3OREH
30.09.2012
10/10
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Purchased my Intel 520 Series 480GB SSD from Amazon in August 2012. Installation was very easy into my 2012 MacBook Pro 13" with 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 500GB 5400rpm 2.5" disk, 16GB RAM, 6-Gb/s SATA 3 interface. You need a very tiny phillips screw driver to remove the laptop bottom plate, and a very tiny torx driver to remove/install the 2.5" drive (tools available cheap from OWC Mac Sales and other sources).No software drivers to install, no fuss, no lockups. It works great and it's screaming fast! Even my Windows 7, Windows 8, and Linux virtual machines are lightning quick and applications pop open almost instantly.Installation was simple. Remove the laptop bottom plate. Removed my stock 500GB 2.5" spinning rust drive and put it into an external USB enclosure. Installed the Intel 520 SSD into the Mac. Booted from the original 500GB disk via USB then used Mac's built-in Disk Utility to partition / format the new SSD. Used Carbon Copy Cloner to 'clone' the stock disk to the newly installed SSD. Be sure to let Carbon Copy Cloner create a small partition on the SSD and copy the OS recovery partition from the original disk drive. Most of this is automated and pretty simple. Now boot from the newly installed SSD. Done.The Intel 520 SSD wasn't the cheapest available and it's probably not THE fastest SATA 3 SSD on the market (but it's still quite fast!). Part of my purchase decision was based on Intel reputation and the 5 Year Warranty. It's been reliable so far but just in case, I'm keeping all my paperwork in a safe place if I ever need to return it.I'll probably never go back to spinning disks except for my backups.
Эксопилот-4VPMP
30.09.2012
10/10
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Purchased my Intel 520 Series 480GB SSD from Amazon in August 2012. Installation was very easy into my 2012 MacBook Pro 13" with 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 500GB 5400rpm 2.5" disk, 16GB RAM, 6-Gb/s SATA 3 interface. You need a very tiny phillips screw driver to remove the laptop bottom plate, and a very tiny torx driver to remove/install the 2.5" drive (tools available cheap from OWC Mac Sales and other sources).No software drivers to install, no fuss, no lockups. It works great and it's screaming fast! Even my Windows 7, Windows 8, and Linux virtual machines are lightning quick and applications pop open almost instantly.Installation was simple. Remove the laptop bottom plate. Removed my stock 500GB 2.5" spinning rust drive and put it into an external USB enclosure. Installed the Intel 520 SSD into the Mac. Booted from the original 500GB disk via USB then used Mac's built-in Disk Utility to partition / format the new SSD. Used Carbon Copy Cloner to 'clone' the stock disk to the newly installed SSD. Be sure to let Carbon Copy Cloner create a small partition on the SSD and copy the OS recovery partition from the original disk drive. Most of this is automated and pretty simple. Now boot from the newly installed SSD. Done.The Intel 520 SSD wasn't the cheapest available and it's probably not THE fastest SATA 3 SSD on the market (but it's still quite fast!). Part of my purchase decision was based on Intel reputation and the 5 Year Warranty. It's been reliable so far but just in case, I'm keeping all my paperwork in a safe place if I ever need to return it.I'll probably never go back to spinning disks except for my backups.
Спектроник-2RVEC
15.01.2013
10/10
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I just successfully installed this drive to replace the failed OEM hard drive from Hitachi.This "kit" doesn't come with anything that helps you configure it for a Mac laptop. The extra cables are all in reference to desktops where you can install this as a second drive and then transfer data to it. I had to buy an extra USB/Sata cable from Apricorn to make this work. This kit only comes with cloning software for Windows but the Apple OS X disk utility is capable of cloning already. In my case, it was irrelevant since the original hard drive was dead and couldn't be cloned anyway. There were no instructions for my particular situation. So what I ended up doing is using the Apple OS X disk utility together with the USB/SATA cable to reformat this drive. I had to use my friend's Mac to accomplish this since mine couldn't boot. When I first popped this SSD straight into my MBP right out of the box, it didn't recognize it but after I formatted it, it worked. The computer recognized it as a good Mac volume albeit empty. My older MBP still has the CD drive so I used the restoration CDs to reinstall the entire OS back to factory from that point. The laptop now boots really fast as advertised and the apps launch very quickly as well.
Плазмоид-4XAZR
15.01.2013
10/10
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I just successfully installed this drive to replace the failed OEM hard drive from Hitachi.This "kit" doesn't come with anything that helps you configure it for a Mac laptop. The extra cables are all in reference to desktops where you can install this as a second drive and then transfer data to it. I had to buy an extra USB/Sata cable from Apricorn to make this work. This kit only comes with cloning software for Windows but the Apple OS X disk utility is capable of cloning already. In my case, it was irrelevant since the original hard drive was dead and couldn't be cloned anyway. There were no instructions for my particular situation. So what I ended up doing is using the Apple OS X disk utility together with the USB/SATA cable to reformat this drive. I had to use my friend's Mac to accomplish this since mine couldn't boot. When I first popped this SSD straight into my MBP right out of the box, it didn't recognize it but after I formatted it, it worked. The computer recognized it as a good Mac volume albeit empty. My older MBP still has the CD drive so I used the restoration CDs to reinstall the entire OS back to factory from that point. The laptop now boots really fast as advertised and the apps launch very quickly as well.
Небулоид-7MVNK
07.09.2012
10/10
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On my mid-2011 Apple MacBook Pro (MBP), I opted for this 180GB SSD. I do web design and development, web programming, and Windows programming. This drive covers my basic apps and VMs, with 30GB to spare. Without the sound recording studio I'd have 80GB left...What made me choose this drive is the SandForce 520 chipset. It has built-in garbage collection that renders the need for TRIM drivers needless. The OS shouldn't have to do drive maintenance anyway, that should be the drive's job, which means fewer drivers for the OS to have running in memory...Also, computer owners running a SSD without its own garbage collection or without TRIM enabled is begging for trouble: A SSD's effective lifespan would plummet, since these devices can only be written to a certain number of times before they "wear out", and garbage collection organizes and optimizes where and how the drives are written to. Until SandForce, only TRIM was the solution, and not available for all customers who use the drive, depending on their OS...So that's the two scoops. When installing this drive, feel content that you don't need to install any unsupported hacks in any OS that lacks or prohibits TRIM support. And that the OS shouldn't have to deal with disk maintenance at this level to begin with...Oh, the drive is massively fast - naturally, for it is a SSD. Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8) boots in 10 seconds, and apps load up almost instantly. Even my Windows VM starts up faster than a native, modern Windows machine.And even better, Intel's five YEAR warranty is highly competitive. SSDs are expensive, so Intel putting up a solid warranty upfront only adds to a greater sense of security.
Фотон-7PJYG
07.09.2012
10/10
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On my mid-2011 Apple MacBook Pro (MBP), I opted for this 180GB SSD. I do web design and development, web programming, and Windows programming. This drive covers my basic apps and VMs, with 30GB to spare. Without the sound recording studio I'd have 80GB left...What made me choose this drive is the SandForce 520 chipset. It has built-in garbage collection that renders the need for TRIM drivers needless. The OS shouldn't have to do drive maintenance anyway, that should be the drive's job, which means fewer drivers for the OS to have running in memory...Also, computer owners running a SSD without its own garbage collection or without TRIM enabled is begging for trouble: A SSD's effective lifespan would plummet, since these devices can only be written to a certain number of times before they "wear out", and garbage collection organizes and optimizes where and how the drives are written to. Until SandForce, only TRIM was the solution, and not available for all customers who use the drive, depending on their OS...So that's the two scoops. When installing this drive, feel content that you don't need to install any unsupported hacks in any OS that lacks or prohibits TRIM support. And that the OS shouldn't have to deal with disk maintenance at this level to begin with...Oh, the drive is massively fast - naturally, for it is a SSD. Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8) boots in 10 seconds, and apps load up almost instantly. Even my Windows VM starts up faster than a native, modern Windows machine.And even better, Intel's five YEAR warranty is highly competitive. SSDs are expensive, so Intel putting up a solid warranty upfront only adds to a greater sense of security.
Гелиос-0QJSK
07.02.2013
10/10
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This 2.5" drive come with a standard adapter to install in a 3.5" bay. Unfortunately my brand new Dell Optiplex 9010 has nice but non-standard drive brackets (plastic no tools) so I couldn't cleanly install the drive. This isn't Intel problem it is Dell's. Would you believe that it took 2.5 hours on chat and phone to Dell parts sales and then technical support to order the $6.00 part?Once installed cleanly, everything else was trivial. You download Intel's version of Acronis from the Intel website, install the software, and clone your current drive. Ten minutes elapsed time. Either change cables or change the boot sequence and you are done.Comparing the Intel 520 180 GB drive with the Western Digital WD2500AAKX, you get wonderful improvement. My boot time has decreased by more than 90%. There is no longer a noticeable delay when loading porky applications like Excel.Here is some data from HD Tune.transfer rate (Intel) 203 MB/sec (WD) 100 MB/sec so twice the performance!Access time (Intel) 0.1 ms (WD) 15.5 ms just what you would expectBurst rate: (Intel) 176 MB/sec (WD) 168 MB/sec the same
Сатурниан-0CTMY
07.02.2013
10/10
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This 2.5" drive come with a standard adapter to install in a 3.5" bay. Unfortunately my brand new Dell Optiplex 9010 has nice but non-standard drive brackets (plastic no tools) so I couldn't cleanly install the drive. This isn't Intel problem it is Dell's. Would you believe that it took 2.5 hours on chat and phone to Dell parts sales and then technical support to order the $6.00 part?Once installed cleanly, everything else was trivial. You download Intel's version of Acronis from the Intel website, install the software, and clone your current drive. Ten minutes elapsed time. Either change cables or change the boot sequence and you are done.Comparing the Intel 520 180 GB drive with the Western Digital WD2500AAKX, you get wonderful improvement. My boot time has decreased by more than 90%. There is no longer a noticeable delay when loading porky applications like Excel.Here is some data from HD Tune.transfer rate (Intel) 203 MB/sec (WD) 100 MB/sec so twice the performance!Access time (Intel) 0.1 ms (WD) 15.5 ms just what you would expectBurst rate: (Intel) 176 MB/sec (WD) 168 MB/sec the same
Гелиос-4TYFY
22.03.2013
2/10
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I bought this SSD to replace my old HDD on my MacBook. After trying every possible solutions ( installing Lion, Snow Leopard, replacing cable, verifying disk, enabling Trim,...) my computer still stops for 5-60 seconds every 3-5 minutes. I looked for the problem on google, and there are many people having the same problem. It was discussed in Intel's forum, that the problem was the incompatibility between Nvidia chip, which is very old and used in a lot of MacBook, and the SSD. Other companies have solved this problem with their SSDs, however, Intel hasn't done anything. There's no way to fix this problem if you already buy the SSD. I bought this more expensive SSD because I read good things about Intel, but after this purchase, I'm very cautious about Intel's product. It has taken me 2 days, and my computer is still not working well. If I bought the OCZ's SSD, however, I would have had a nice computer after 15' of installment.
Аэронавт-7XZPP
22.03.2013
2/10
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I bought this SSD to replace my old HDD on my MacBook. After trying every possible solutions ( installing Lion, Snow Leopard, replacing cable, verifying disk, enabling Trim,...) my computer still stops for 5-60 seconds every 3-5 minutes. I looked for the problem on google, and there are many people having the same problem. It was discussed in Intel's forum, that the problem was the incompatibility between Nvidia chip, which is very old and used in a lot of MacBook, and the SSD. Other companies have solved this problem with their SSDs, however, Intel hasn't done anything. There's no way to fix this problem if you already buy the SSD. I bought this more expensive SSD because I read good things about Intel, but after this purchase, I'm very cautious about Intel's product. It has taken me 2 days, and my computer is still not working well. If I bought the OCZ's SSD, however, I would have had a nice computer after 15' of installment.
ТерраБот-9DETM
21.01.2013
10/10
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Have a number of these for office and home. They work great, are fast, and come with Intel's excellent migration utility ("move" your OS from hard drive to SSD painlessly) and Windows (or Mac) firmware update utility, no problems and easy to use. The SSD utility also "tunes" the drives and does house keeping to ensure top notch performance. Intel has a 5 year warranty too - haven't had to use it, but reading through the forums those who have were treated very well. Intel SSDs may cost a bit more, but are WELL WORTH IT!As comparison, have had SanDisk and OCZ Vertex 3 SSDs as well. The SanDisk stopped working after 1 year and 5 days in light service; dead, no warning, just quit - HD not even seen by BIOS. The OCZ Vertex 3 has been working fine for 18 months, but at each firmware release, have to make a special boot cd to flash it and the 2nd flash destroyed all contents (fortunately I did make a backup just before and easily restored it).Heartily recommend the Intel, the few extra dollars in initial cost more than pay for themselves with the utilities, reliability and warranty.
Гиперион-2NXDQ
21.01.2013
10/10
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Have a number of these for office and home. They work great, are fast, and come with Intel's excellent migration utility ("move" your OS from hard drive to SSD painlessly) and Windows (or Mac) firmware update utility, no problems and easy to use. The SSD utility also "tunes" the drives and does house keeping to ensure top notch performance. Intel has a 5 year warranty too - haven't had to use it, but reading through the forums those who have were treated very well. Intel SSDs may cost a bit more, but are WELL WORTH IT!As comparison, have had SanDisk and OCZ Vertex 3 SSDs as well. The SanDisk stopped working after 1 year and 5 days in light service; dead, no warning, just quit - HD not even seen by BIOS. The OCZ Vertex 3 has been working fine for 18 months, but at each firmware release, have to make a special boot cd to flash it and the 2nd flash destroyed all contents (fortunately I did make a backup just before and easily restored it).Heartily recommend the Intel, the few extra dollars in initial cost more than pay for themselves with the utilities, reliability and warranty.
Гелиос-8BZFD
13.02.2013
8/10
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No problem using it in a Lenovo S12 running Win XP, though I did experienced a couple of Blue Screens, till I switched the drive mode to 'compatible mode'. (I admit that I do not understand this. I migrated a Lenovo S10-3 with XP, to an Intel 313 SLC SSD without a similar problem. It might have been a bios related thing.)This package came with an adaptor kit for a desktop. To migrate a laptop to this SSD, an optional usb adaptor is required (or use an external usb enclosure). Free downloadable software from Intel, to migrate from the existing drive to this SSD, is easy to use and worked flawlessly (also permitting resizing of the partition during migration). For OS's that do not have the 'trim' function built-in, there is a downloadable util to do that. (Verified to work properly for XP). I did not checked the performance improvement to provide any quantitative info. Bottom line, it works. (This is actually a 7mm [height] drive that has an adaptor attached to make it a 9mm drive, as shipped.)
Астрономад-2BIKV
13.02.2013
8/10
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No problem using it in a Lenovo S12 running Win XP, though I did experienced a couple of Blue Screens, till I switched the drive mode to 'compatible mode'. (I admit that I do not understand this. I migrated a Lenovo S10-3 with XP, to an Intel 313 SLC SSD without a similar problem. It might have been a bios related thing.)This package came with an adaptor kit for a desktop. To migrate a laptop to this SSD, an optional usb adaptor is required (or use an external usb enclosure). Free downloadable software from Intel, to migrate from the existing drive to this SSD, is easy to use and worked flawlessly (also permitting resizing of the partition during migration). For OS's that do not have the 'trim' function built-in, there is a downloadable util to do that. (Verified to work properly for XP). I did not checked the performance improvement to provide any quantitative info. Bottom line, it works. (This is actually a 7mm [height] drive that has an adaptor attached to make it a 9mm drive, as shipped.)
Астрон-6MQFT
21.02.2013
10/10
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My motherboard only has SATA II inputs, but luckily this drive in backward compatible. I read where this drive is a little slower but more reliable than other manufacturer drives, and since I am running on SATA II, I went for the reliability. I changed the BIOS settings on my motherboard to AHCI, then began my Windows 7 install. Went exactly the same as a normal platter drive with no issues whatsoever. Full install and complete updating of Windows 7 in 1 hour including download times. The drive is really fast, and I now have a Windows Performance score for my drive at 7.7.120GB is a little on the small side I'm finding out. I've already filled it with just a few applications and game. I am planning to buy another one of these drives and have the two work in a RAID 0 array configuration.Highly recommended.
Сириус-0DPOR
21.02.2013
10/10
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My motherboard only has SATA II inputs, but luckily this drive in backward compatible. I read where this drive is a little slower but more reliable than other manufacturer drives, and since I am running on SATA II, I went for the reliability. I changed the BIOS settings on my motherboard to AHCI, then began my Windows 7 install. Went exactly the same as a normal platter drive with no issues whatsoever. Full install and complete updating of Windows 7 in 1 hour including download times. The drive is really fast, and I now have a Windows Performance score for my drive at 7.7.120GB is a little on the small side I'm finding out. I've already filled it with just a few applications and game. I am planning to buy another one of these drives and have the two work in a RAID 0 array configuration.Highly recommended.
Астероид-0FDYT
10.08.2011
2/10
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This WAS my first solid state drive. What a quick death! When I first got this hard drive, I cloned it. Cloning the hard drive was quick and easy. After the installation, I was impressed at how fast it made my system.Now it is time for the dirt. Who cares about speed when it only works for a total of 45 days? Honestly, I am willing to trade in speed for reliability any day. Sign me up. Because now, I have to spend a few hours getting everything back to normal again. Re-installing, and shipping the defective product is a major pain. How annoying. I thought that technology was supposed to make my life easier, not harder?I realize that a factory sometimes manufactures bad batches. Statistically, older hard drives either die within the first 6 months or after 7 years. It is less likely for hard drives to fail between those time frames. However, based on the large number of complaints by other reviewers, these are not bad batches. They are bad designs.I will update on how annoying/fun returning this product will be.------------------------August 10, 2011:I used Intel's live chat to get some help on this process. Their website wasn't overly clear on this.The Intel representative told me that I have to pay for shipping it there, and that they will pay for its way back. How gracious of them! Wait ... so why am I being punished for being sold a faulty product again? Re-installing everything and being without a functioning laptop should be enough of a punishment.It seems to me that if you get a faulty hard drive, you will have to take a double-hit on this one. Being unsatisfied with their service, I told the representative that I want to talk to the manager. He told me that a manager will contact me in one business hour.She called me in less than one business hour. I told her that I am not willing to pay for shipping back a faulty product. She replied saying that she will waive the $25 fee for shipping this one time. Well let's hope that there is no other time. If this was to happen again, then I will have to pay for shipping this piece of metal back to them.------------------------December 24, 2011:My computer hung while I was searching the internet. Surfing the internet is not computing intensive. To those interested in buying this hard drive, if your computer hangs and you get the blue screen of death, your hard drive will be toast. After rebooting my computer, the famous "Operating system not found" message came up again. Here we go again, another hard drive failure. Merry Christmas to me.------------------------December 28, 2011:I called intel and asked for my money back. After being put on hold for ten minutes, the agent told me that they will make a refund in this special case.
Спектроник-7VHOT
15.05.2012
10/10
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Bought this after much research for our home media server that functions as the main Media Center streaming HD video to our xBoxes and media center extenders. The motherboard, an MSI DKA790GX only supports SATAII so I knew up front that I wouldn't be able to take full advantage of the capabilities of this SSD. Already having a Quad core AMD cpu and a really nice Radeon HD 6850 video card the only deficiency left was the "slow" 7200 rpm 500GB main drive. In advance I moved all our pictures and music to a 1TB data drive leaving the other 1 TB data drie for TV recording. All in all that left the main OS/application drive with about 65GB's of used space. Perfect. Now, having cloned drives before I was prepared for the process and was happy to see that despite this being labled as a reseller kit it came complete with 3.5" brackets and a link to Intel's site for cloning software, courtesy of Acronis, firmware updates and other tools. Once the SSD was installed into and plugged in I started the clone process. First impression .... WOW! The clone process only took about 20 minutes. Alot faster than the usual drive to drive transfer. Once the clone finished and the old drive was taken off line the first boot on the SSD in IDE mode was fast. After completing the SSD tweaks to enable Trim and optimize space their is no other conclusion to reach other than SSD's make traditional platter drives look like childrens toys. Screaming fast, Media Center access from xBox and Media Center Extenders take about half the time, down to 15 seconds from 30 plus. Everything from running apps to video playback is noticebly faster. Do NOT put this project off any longer, it's just that good. Nice job Intel. Great price Amazon.
Сириус-2CUGF
15.05.2012
10/10
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Bought this after much research for our home media server that functions as the main Media Center streaming HD video to our xBoxes and media center extenders. The motherboard, an MSI DKA790GX only supports SATAII so I knew up front that I wouldn't be able to take full advantage of the capabilities of this SSD. Already having a Quad core AMD cpu and a really nice Radeon HD 6850 video card the only deficiency left was the "slow" 7200 rpm 500GB main drive. In advance I moved all our pictures and music to a 1TB data drive leaving the other 1 TB data drie for TV recording. All in all that left the main OS/application drive with about 65GB's of used space. Perfect. Now, having cloned drives before I was prepared for the process and was happy to see that despite this being labled as a reseller kit it came complete with 3.5" brackets and a link to Intel's site for cloning software, courtesy of Acronis, firmware updates and other tools. Once the SSD was installed into and plugged in I started the clone process. First impression .... WOW! The clone process only took about 20 minutes. Alot faster than the usual drive to drive transfer. Once the clone finished and the old drive was taken off line the first boot on the SSD in IDE mode was fast. After completing the SSD tweaks to enable Trim and optimize space their is no other conclusion to reach other than SSD's make traditional platter drives look like childrens toys. Screaming fast, Media Center access from xBox and Media Center Extenders take about half the time, down to 15 seconds from 30 plus. Everything from running apps to video playback is noticebly faster. Do NOT put this project off any longer, it's just that good. Nice job Intel. Great price Amazon.
ИнфраГость-4WNSQ
11.12.2012
10/10
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realmente es fabuloso, era la cereza que le faltaba a mi postre!, realmente el rendimiento de la PC, el encendido, la velocidad que se obtiene con este producto es impresionante, desde que enciendo la PC hasta que aparece mi escritorio le toma menos de 40 seg. estar totalmente encendida.lo ideal seria tener un disco de mayor capacidad, por ahora solo lo utilizo para los programas normales del disco c, para juego, m?sica im?genes tengo un disco SATA III de 1 Tb, apenas empiecen a bajar de precios voy a comprar otro de mas capacidad...really is fabulous, it was the cherry that was missing from my dessert!, really PC performance, the power, the speed you get with this product is awesome, since I turn on the PC until my desktop appears it takes less than 40 sec. be fully powered.the ideal would be to have a larger capacity disk, for now just use it to drive c programs, gaming, music images I have a SATA III 1TB, only prices begin to lose another I will buy more capacity. ..
Туманник-1TWQC
11.12.2012
10/10
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realmente es fabuloso, era la cereza que le faltaba a mi postre!, realmente el rendimiento de la PC, el encendido, la velocidad que se obtiene con este producto es impresionante, desde que enciendo la PC hasta que aparece mi escritorio le toma menos de 40 seg. estar totalmente encendida.lo ideal seria tener un disco de mayor capacidad, por ahora solo lo utilizo para los programas normales del disco c, para juego, m?sica im?genes tengo un disco SATA III de 1 Tb, apenas empiecen a bajar de precios voy a comprar otro de mas capacidad...really is fabulous, it was the cherry that was missing from my dessert!, really PC performance, the power, the speed you get with this product is awesome, since I turn on the PC until my desktop appears it takes less than 40 sec. be fully powered.the ideal would be to have a larger capacity disk, for now just use it to drive c programs, gaming, music images I have a SATA III 1TB, only prices begin to lose another I will buy more capacity. ..
Кронос-5IVBL
05.02.2013
10/10
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I will never go back to a hard drive for the C: drive on my PC. It was easy to install and copy the software from the old C: hard drive to the Intel SSD. Just install the new drive in the case hook up to SATA III port (or SATA II) and boot off you old hard drive Install the software you download from Intel's site for you drive. Use the migration software to copy the old C: drive (which you are booted from) to the Intel SSD. After that you can reboot your PC and change the boot drive in the Bios and you are done. Then run the Toolbox software that you downloaded and installed and it will tell you if everything is OK with you drive. Make sure you check the system tuner option to make sure everything is OK with the software setup. The estimated life should be 100%.
НеоВояжер-3JAOP
05.02.2013
10/10
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I will never go back to a hard drive for the C: drive on my PC. It was easy to install and copy the software from the old C: hard drive to the Intel SSD. Just install the new drive in the case hook up to SATA III port (or SATA II) and boot off you old hard drive Install the software you download from Intel's site for you drive. Use the migration software to copy the old C: drive (which you are booted from) to the Intel SSD. After that you can reboot your PC and change the boot drive in the Bios and you are done. Then run the Toolbox software that you downloaded and installed and it will tell you if everything is OK with you drive. Make sure you check the system tuner option to make sure everything is OK with the software setup. The estimated life should be 100%.
Спектр-9OCIA
13.03.2013
10/10
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Just a few weeks ago I had a hard drive crash for the second time within two months. I wanted something better but I found that I didn't need 500 GB at all. Since my hard drive was the bottleneck of my gaming PC in the first place, I decided to spend the extra money and buy a Solid-State Drive.Boy am I glad I did. This thing is fast. Every program seems to load in under a few seconds with super-responsiveness. Tasks like installing programs and copying files are near-instantaneous.It's 2013 and you're still spinning at 5400 or 7200 RPM? You're waiting for what seems like minutes for Photoshop to load? Get with the times. Get an SSD.
Гравитон-8MBDZ
13.03.2013
10/10
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Just a few weeks ago I had a hard drive crash for the second time within two months. I wanted something better but I found that I didn't need 500 GB at all. Since my hard drive was the bottleneck of my gaming PC in the first place, I decided to spend the extra money and buy a Solid-State Drive.Boy am I glad I did. This thing is fast. Every program seems to load in under a few seconds with super-responsiveness. Tasks like installing programs and copying files are near-instantaneous.It's 2013 and you're still spinning at 5400 or 7200 RPM? You're waiting for what seems like minutes for Photoshop to load? Get with the times. Get an SSD.
Аэронавт-8TZTT
14.03.2013
8/10
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Three year old Dual core Windows 7 computer. About the time I normally buy a new computer. Happy I put this solid state drive in rather then spend on a new computer. Boot time is about 30 seconds now. Civ 5 runs a good deal quicker which I did not expect. A Windows update flashed by the screen in about 5 seconds. Don't need the drive space so I unplugged my old hard drive to save energy... quieter also. My security cameras also come on quicker... used to be my cat set them off but I seldom got a look at her... now there she is going about her kitty business. Computer also snaps awake when I jiggle the mouse. Delighted!
Капеллан-9TWUT
14.03.2013
8/10
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Three year old Dual core Windows 7 computer. About the time I normally buy a new computer. Happy I put this solid state drive in rather then spend on a new computer. Boot time is about 30 seconds now. Civ 5 runs a good deal quicker which I did not expect. A Windows update flashed by the screen in about 5 seconds. Don't need the drive space so I unplugged my old hard drive to save energy... quieter also. My security cameras also come on quicker... used to be my cat set them off but I seldom got a look at her... now there she is going about her kitty business. Computer also snaps awake when I jiggle the mouse. Delighted!
КиберНаблюдатель-1QVFG
23.05.2012
10/10
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I had some trepidations about the reliability of SSDs prior to this purchase. I have seen more than few stories of SSDs going south within the first few boots all the way up through the first few months or the first year. I like OCZ and a lot of the other companies for things like graphics cards and the like, but I couldn't go into an SSD purchase knowing I would be fighting an RMA process all too soon. Of course, this is in addition to potential data loss and the loss of my time (and gain of downtime and aggravation) in getting everything set up again. With all these considerations in mind, I decided to go with this Intel drive as being reliable and fast. I don't care if it is 5% slower than an OCZ drive or a little more expensive, as I wanted an SSD speed boost without the aforementioned headaches (or at least a minimal chance of them).My laptop is a Dell XPS laptop circa 2011 with SATA Gen. 3 connectivity. Installation was pretty straightforward, and nothing really of interest happened. After Windows was installed, I entered ludicrous speed. As most of the other reviews you have undoubtedly read indicate, it is ridiculously fast. I used AS SSD Benchmark and got a Total Score of 520. I haven't really determined whether this is on par with what others are getting, but real world performance has been impressive either way.After using it a few weeks, it oddly feels like how computers are supposed to work. Reliability has held up so far, though it would be impossible to predict how long it will last. Overall, a great purchase thus far, especially with the confidence of the longer/Intel-backed warranty.
Капеллан-7AEUD
23.05.2012
10/10
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I had some trepidations about the reliability of SSDs prior to this purchase. I have seen more than few stories of SSDs going south within the first few boots all the way up through the first few months or the first year. I like OCZ and a lot of the other companies for things like graphics cards and the like, but I couldn't go into an SSD purchase knowing I would be fighting an RMA process all too soon. Of course, this is in addition to potential data loss and the loss of my time (and gain of downtime and aggravation) in getting everything set up again. With all these considerations in mind, I decided to go with this Intel drive as being reliable and fast. I don't care if it is 5% slower than an OCZ drive or a little more expensive, as I wanted an SSD speed boost without the aforementioned headaches (or at least a minimal chance of them).My laptop is a Dell XPS laptop circa 2011 with SATA Gen. 3 connectivity. Installation was pretty straightforward, and nothing really of interest happened. After Windows was installed, I entered ludicrous speed. As most of the other reviews you have undoubtedly read indicate, it is ridiculously fast. I used AS SSD Benchmark and got a Total Score of 520. I haven't really determined whether this is on par with what others are getting, but real world performance has been impressive either way.After using it a few weeks, it oddly feels like how computers are supposed to work. Reliability has held up so far, though it would be impossible to predict how long it will last. Overall, a great purchase thus far, especially with the confidence of the longer/Intel-backed warranty.
ОмниКод-2DXGO
24.06.2011
10/10
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I installed this 300GB Intel 320 Series Solid State Drive in my 13" MacBook Pro (mid-2009; 2.53 GHz). The SSD is working wonderfully so far, after about 2 weeks of use. In 2009, I tried my luck with an OCZ "Mac Certified" Vertex drive, only to find it bricked about 2 months later, so I was hesitant to try another SSD in the same MacBook Pro. (The 13" mid-2009 models are notorious for problems with the SATA interface, so much so that OCZ does not list the 13" model among "approved" Macs.) Not wanting to deal with the hassle of swapping out another dead SSD, I decided to sacrifice a bit of performance in exchange for the reliability of an Intel SSD, with an Intel (rather than SandForce) controller. Of all the drives out there, the Intel drives appear to be the most frequently cited as being compatible with the older MacBook Pros, including the 13" model.Performance after install is great! It seems a little faster than the OCZ Vertex. I had forgotten how much faster boot up and application launch are with an SSD. Microsoft Word 2011 loads in less than 3 seconds. Going back to HD speeds seems unlikely now. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I won't have a repeat of my first SSD failure. I also feel confident that TRIM will be enabled for non-Apple-branded SSDs soon after the release of Lion. I am using the developer release of Lion with the Intel drive right now, so I can assure you that Lion at present does not enable TRIM for the Intel drive. It's clearly part of the OS, but Apple has disabled it for all but factory-installed SSDs. There is a hack available, but I'lll give Apple some more time before resorting to the hack.NOTE: Physical installation was a breeze, but cloning the HD to the SSD was not. I was unable to clone my internal HD to the Intel SSD using the SATA to USB cable provided, or any other method. I tried SuperDuper! and Apple's Disk Utility (using the "restore" feature), but in both instances the cloning did not work. SuperDuper! indicated it was finished, but obviously was not. Smart updates run in succession always wrote additional files. After comparing notes with another MacBook Pro user who had installed an OWC SSD the same week, we determined that the problem likely has more to do with the MacBook Pro than with Intel or OWC. (He was unable to clone his HD to the SSD, either, and he's more tech-savvy than I.) Ultimately, I had to resort to installing the SSD (after formatting the SSD to use HFS+ and a GUID partition scheme -- the latter being essential), then reinstalling Snow Leopard using the install disk that came with my MacBook Pro (selecting the "restore" option), in conjunction with my TimeMachine backup. Fortunately, the speed of the SSD allowed me to complete the restore in less than 3 hours.
Астероид-6IODU
09.12.2012
10/10
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I had bought a brand new Dell XPS L702X laptop and started it for the first time with the factory regular HDD. It took almost a minute to get into Windows. After switching to the SSD the start time was down to about 19 seconds from the time. In both cases that's the time it took from when I pressed the power button to when I was in Windows and it was done loading. I didn't need to change any sort of settings. That time drop was only from "plug n play." I love that there is A LOT less heat generated which is a huge positive when the laptop is actually on your lap. With the less heat the computer's fan doesn't need to run other than when the processor is calculating a bunch of stuff so the fan is quieter. The SSD itself is also completely silent unlike the standard HDD which you could always hear spinning. I have zero negatives about this product. I'm a believer now and I'll be using SDDs for life. It's worth every penny.
Дроид-0PZOM
09.12.2012
10/10
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I had bought a brand new Dell XPS L702X laptop and started it for the first time with the factory regular HDD. It took almost a minute to get into Windows. After switching to the SSD the start time was down to about 19 seconds from the time. In both cases that's the time it took from when I pressed the power button to when I was in Windows and it was done loading. I didn't need to change any sort of settings. That time drop was only from "plug n play." I love that there is A LOT less heat generated which is a huge positive when the laptop is actually on your lap. With the less heat the computer's fan doesn't need to run other than when the processor is calculating a bunch of stuff so the fan is quieter. The SSD itself is also completely silent unlike the standard HDD which you could always hear spinning. I have zero negatives about this product. I'm a believer now and I'll be using SDDs for life. It's worth every penny.
ОмниКод-2XYUS
18.02.2013
10/10
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This is a replacement for my X25-M. That drive lasted and still have ~95% life left after 3 years, according to Intel's tools. It was only 80GB, so too small for what I wanted. I got the 520 in the 180GB capacity; it allows me to move all of my VMs to the SSD, making them run much better.The 520 is not the cheapest SSD. While functionally identical to other SF-2281 drives, this one has been validated and has a custom firmware, plus Intel's top-shelf flash memory. That was worth the extra money to me, but it may not to you.I'm only using it on a SATA2 port, but it is more than fast enough there. This is one of the fastest SSDs you can get. Worth the money, and recommended.
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