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Originally purchased a Kingston 120GB drive--liked it very much but then put it in an older PC that I put together for some kids I know--that really made a difference in speed and noise. They love that PC! This Intel 160GB seems to be every bit as fast and of course, quiet. Since I don't need a lot of drive space, the 160 is about twice what I need, allowing for some room to grow. I'm NEVER buying another spinning hard drive. Why? Since less power is being used, Dell PowerEdge T100 cooling system seems to always run at its lowest level--in short, the advantages are FASTER RESPONSE, COOLER OPERATION, QUIETER and LESS POWER HUNGRY. Love it.
This is an expensive drive, but the performance is awesome. In OSX Snow Leopard, my boot is very fast, and applications open nearly immediately. It was fairly easy to install (make sure you have the right tools and it'll only take 30-45 minutes. I had to run out to get some new tools for it). and Apple support ensured me that I wouldn't invalidate my warranty (in fact, instructions on how to replace the HD are included in the MBP owners manual). Time will tell whether or not the performance degrades with time, but I'm hoping it will continue to stay very snappy.
i did alot of research before buying a ssd. I was going to do a sata3 with 128gb or a sata2 with 160gb which is the intel. both would of been around the same price. i decided to get the "slower" sata 2 speed with more gb. i love my choice. there is a small difference in sata2 and sata3 in real life application. the drive performs well. my start up time went from 45sec to 18secs. apps open faster. the drive makes no noise at all. because its digital. my wei is a 7.8. my bro has a sata3. but he is a gamer so he would notice a small split difference in speed. but if your in that much of a hurry for a app to open you have a issue. lol. this drive is way better than a mechanical hdd. so i would recommend it in a heart beat. plus you get intel name. iam sure they made it with there processors in mind and tested it on a system with intel. so if you have intel than hey why not.Read full review
I bought this as used for a Lenovo T60 to use with Windows 8.1. The T60 is a dual core old solider with a paltry 3gb RAM and had a 5400 RPM drive. This bad boy kicked it into high gear. Well... better anyway. Its almost double the read speed and more then double the write speed. The downside is its still more expensive then a mechanical hard drive. However its also better on battery life. Make sure to update your bios from the Lenovo website. You could buy a new SSD but they won't run faster as you're still limited to SATA 1. So is it worth the extra cash? A 160 gb mechanical drive can be found on Ebay for $25.00 to $30.00. I paid $60.00. Understand that a SSD is one of the best ways to improve performance. Although I am a Linux OS X user its still very true. Intel is a trusted name and the research I did said this model was okay. This SSD was over $400.00 when it debuted. Still that was in 2009 and that was five years ago. That said if faster means little to you then save the extra cash but if you want to add new life to a older machine or even a newer one grab one of these.Read full review
I have a 330 series Intel already I just got new a few months back. I got this x25 drive used and it has a higher bench mark score than my new 330. The warranty close to expired and it passed MHDD with no errors or slow sectors with average read time of 689 mbits per second. Also it being used and it still has a higher score than my new drive indicates to me this is a reliable drive model. Intel is known from the rma report statistics as being one of the most reliable drives on the market. Lately they have become more price competitive. New or used Intel's drives have been good to me so far. I have bought 15 so far. All models are still running at 6.2 to 7.7 windows index scor es
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