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With an impressive set of specifications, we put the new Intel 520 Series 240GB SSD through our gauntlet of tests.
Today we are looking at the latest Solid State Drive from Intel - the 520 series, codenamed 'Cherryville'. The drive is built around 'compute quality' 25 nanometer NAND flash memory and offers a claimed maximum sequential read speed of 550 MB/s.
This week I had a blast working with a Intel 520 series 240GB Solid State Drive, this thing is as closest to a perfect woman as your gonna get. Its works really fast, does it quietly and doesn’t complain at all not even after a full 10hrs workload :-).
No seriously, solid state drives are a must have these days. Imaging putting one in your notebook saving energy and increasing your workflow as well. I have been watching the prices from the start when they still were sky high, nowadays it’s becoming more and more affordable and even for the common folk like me.
On release, the SF-2281 controlled client drives leaped to the top of performance charts, but for some, reliability and odd BSOD issues plagued these products. In our testing only two drives experienced issues. The first drive made it through standard testing, but ran into problems when deployed in a daily use system. The second drive failed to complete our standard benchmark procedures, having BSOD issues out of the box. Both drives were later fixed with a firmware update, but for a company like Intel, issues like these are unacceptable.
I'm a bit surprised no one has asked why Intel sampled most media outlets with two and in some cases three identical 520 Series 240GB drives for review. As a consumer I'd rather have seen performance numbers from both 240GB (our single drive review is here) and 120GB drives since these are the capacity sizes that make the most sense for computer users today. As you can imagine, no one is going to complain about getting dual 240GB drives especially media folks who are generally power users with PCs on steroids.
Intel are today releasing the new 520 series based on SandForce technology. Today we have one of those new drives on our test bench and will be comparing it in real world and synthetic tests against drives based on the latest Sandforce, Indilinx, Marvell and Samsung controllers.
Intels eben vorgestellte SSD-Generation hört auf den Codenamen "Cherryville" und basiert auf einem SF-2281-Controller aus dem Hause SandForce. Dieser, vom Hersteller erstmals eingesetzte SSD-Prozessor, verhilft dem neuen Flash-Datenträger zu einer gesteigerten Performance im Vergleich zum SSD-510-Vorgänger. Zusätzlich implementiert Intel interessanten Features, wie eine 256-bit-AES-Verschlüsselung, Datenkompression und eine "End-to-End Protection". Wie sich der Neuling gegen die starke Konkurrenz schlägt, wird folgender Test zeigen.
Technic3D hat die Intel 520 SSD Series „Cherryville“ im Test. Die Intel 520 SSD Serie nutzt einen SandForce Controller und setzt auf eine eigens entwickelte Firmware. Wie sich das 240 GB Modell im Test schlägt, zeigt der nachstehende Artikel.
Our release yesterday of our Intel 520 SSD Review (Round One) was probably one of the most anticipated events seen yet in the SSD arena and, if sales can be determined by the extreme numbers of readers who visited the site, Intel will do very well. In that review we made a promise, this being that we would follow up with the absolute best in RAID testing possible, displaying results only we could pull off. Welcome to Round Two folks and get ready for the knockout punch!
The Intel 525 120 GB is an excellent SSD for putting in a laptop that already has a conventional hard disk, and thereby greatly enhancing performance. The SandForce controller is starting to show its age, however, it can no longer keep up with the latest generation SSD controllers.
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