Intel 525 SSD mSATA 6Gbps Series

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Outstanding 557/534 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, Produced 85,980 combined 4K IOPS, Compete with the fastest SATAbased SSDs available, TCG OPAL security with 256bit AES encryption, Uses 25nm NAND flash components, SandForce SF2281 processor supports TRIM, SMART, and RAISE, DuraWrite technology extends NAND lifetime, Enthusiastlevel operational I/O performance, 5Year Intel product warr...

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Expensive enthusiastlevel product

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Outstanding 557/534 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, Produced 85,980 combined 4K IOPS, Compete with the fastest SATAbased SSDs available, TCG OPAL security with 256bit AES encryption, Uses 25nm NAND flash components, SandForce SF2281 processor supports TRIM, SMART, and RAISE, DuraWrite technology extends NAND lifetime, Enthusiastlevel operational I/O performance, 5Year Intel product warr

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IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to...

By Benchmark Reviews on February 11, 2013

mSATA SSD drives are all the rage these days and Intel is now jumping head first into the market with their new 525 Series. In this review, we take a look at the 120GB and 180GB versions, two drives which are striving to dominate this...

By Hardware Canucks on May 11, 2013

DuraWrite technology from SandForce has yet to win me over. I can see it performing as it was designed for when dealing with highly compressible data such as databases (ref: LSI white paper) but I fail to picture a usage pattern that would fully...

By Ubergizmo on April 17, 2013

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...

By uk.hardware.info on April 11, 2013

Intel's SSD 525 Series mSATA drives worked as advertised, and that's no small feat considering Intel is promoting "great performance" in a package that's a fraction of the size of a 2.5-inch SSD. All five capacities we tested -- 30GB, 60GB, 120GB,...

By HotHardware on April 02, 2013

Though not entirely dominant, the SSD 525 had the fastest performance numbers to date out of an mSATA SSD in our real-world traces and pretty good performance in the sythetic workloads overall. It is worth noting however that the SSD 525 tested...

By StorageReview on March 28, 2013

Although SSDs use the 2.5″ form factor originally designed for laptop drives, it just isn't small enough for the upcoming tiny SFF systems – even with the thin 7.5mm height created for the Ultrabook spec.The next step down from there is going to be the...

By hardCOREware on February 11, 2013

As mobile PC's get smaller, even the 2.5″ form factor solid state drives are too large to fit inside without making design concessions. Sure, computer makers can embed than NAND into the device but that pretty much kills any upgrade options for the...

By Legit Reviews on February 11, 2013

Last week we published a teaser look at Intel's latest mSATA SSD: the Intel SSD 525. At the time we only presented performance for a single 240GB drive, however Intel decided to break the mold and send us nearly every capacity in the 525 lineup....

By AnandTech on February 03, 2013

It was only a few years back that we did our part in introducing the world to solid state drives and I still remember the initial reaction as being, ” No way! They will never cut it and you've lost your marbles if you think they will!” That was quite...

By thessdreview.com on February 03, 2013

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