Intel 510 Series 120GB Solid State Drive SSD 2.5IN SATA 6GB/S Elm Crest

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When it works it is awesomely rapidly. It does not work, it worked for a day when installing and so on. now it will not even boot. Do a search for "mac rumors 2011 Macbook Pro 13 - several beachballs with 510 SSD" and the 1st result need to be a relevant discussion with much more information (looks like Newegg does not appreciate URLs).

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Quick, quiet, little form factor and Intel reliability. The speed enhance over my Raptor was not dramatic even so there is a definite improvement in OS load time, responsiveness and not having to listen to the Raptor load drivers is nice. I recommend this drive to any person who is thinking about making the move from spindle to silicon. If you are making use of a primary board that is utilizes the Marvell 88SE9xx controller to implement the 6 GB/S SATA 3 ports on your mobo be aware that the 88SE9xx is genuinely a SCSI controller that has two virtual ƒ) SATA three ports. Any SSD attached to 1 of the SATA 3 ports will be reported by the OS as getting attached to a SCSI device. This will be an issue for folks like me that use the Intel SSD Toolbox to optimize their SSD drives. The SSD Toolbox software will detect that the SSD is attached to a SCSI device and then report that the device is not supported. If you move the cable to a SATA 2 port the challenge goes away. I prepared this disk working with diskpart and then restored my Win7 x64 OS Ghost Image from my Raptor drive with no problems. The only concern I identified (see Cons) was not an problem with the SSD drive but with the way Intel implemented the SATA 3 ports on my DX58SO2 main board which brought on an incompatibility with the Intel SSD Toolbox utility that is employed to optimize SSD performance over time. The disk benchmarks I ran show a sequential read/write performance on the SATA three port as 342롦 MB/s and the SATA two port as 268롬 MB/s. The Random read/write performance is in fact superior on the SATA 2 port. Go figure.

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Used Intel's Data Migration Software to move from an X-25M G2 80GB to this drive and it was super easy and took all of 30 minutes from start to finish!Didn't expect a huge performance increase but Windows experience score went from 7.6 to 7.8 (P8P67 Pro + i7-2600k stock). But the extra 40GB is a big plus obviously.Very happy with this purchase and $30 rebate helps. Was debating on the Vertex 3 but decided to stick with Intel for now until the Vertex is more battle-hardened.

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This SSD (Solid State Drive) is incredibly fast especially if your coming from a 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM HHD (Hard Disc Drive). There is no sound coming from it unlike HDDs. The price for the quality and the quantity being about $2.33/Gb during the sale price of $279.99 or $2.46/Gb if your paying for it at NCIX's regular price which is pretty good.

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This just came out recently and I was able to buy it from Infonec for a bit cheaper. Thanks to Intel for the superior performance.

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It's a nice drive, but I got a lot of problem configuring it. My ASUS board don't like it and I can't manage to get the advertised specs. For the money I spent on a this Enterprise (50$ more to get a sata3 board, ~100$ more to get this drive instead of a sata2 drive, 45$ to get the problem fixed, 2 weeks of fighting with it), the gain in speed isn't worth it. Buy it if your good with computers, want a project and have a very recent board.

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This drive is ridiculously fast, I'm using it with the intel 6Gbps SATA controller on my Sabertooth P67 board, and I'm getting slightly higher read and write speeds than advertised, which is always nice to see.Price is high, but expected, definitely worth it from a speed perspective.

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This SSD is incredible. The speed is awesome, no annoying noise. The price for the quality and the quantity is really good.

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I've had this SSD for a week. It is quite fast compared to a WD black; HD tune shows 250MB/s which is a little slower than the newer SSDs. The new generation ones should bump the prices down. I would only trust Intel and Samsung for reliability. It will be interesting to see the 7xx SSDs from intel when they come out.