Product Details
- Size: 80 GB
- Brand: Intel
- Model: SSDSA2CW080G3B5
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.80" h x
5.40" w x
2.00" l,
.98 pounds
- Hard Disk: 80GB
Features
- Intel Solid-State Drives have no moving parts,resulting in a quiet,cool, rugged storage solution.
- The Intel SSD 320 Series brings high-performance storage and reliability to notebook and desktop systems
- Random read performance of 38,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and sequential read performance of 270 megabytes per second (MB/s)
- Couple that performance with random writes of 10,000 IOPS and sequential writes of 90MB/s to unleash your system.
- The Intel Data Migration Software clones the operating system and files from a hard drive or SSD to any Intel SSD.
- Also includes a notebook install kit: USB to SATA cable, protective sleeve and screwdriver.
- Designed to satisfy the most demanding users and technology enthusiasts,
- Designed to satisfy the most demanding users and technology enthusiasts.
- Included in the box: SSD,quick install guide,mini CD-ROM warranty,desktop install kit:drive bracket and screws,SATA signal cable & SATA power cable.
- Intel SSD 320 Series come pre-configured with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit full-disk encryption capabilities.
- Intel SSD 320 Series feature low-write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability
- Intel SSDs not only perform better, they last longer.
- Intel Solid-State Drives has a life expectancy of 1.2 million hours mean time between failures
- Results in a quiet, cool, rugged storage solution with a life expectancy of 1.2 million hours mean time between failures
- The free software supports Microsoft Windows 7, Vista and XP
- Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel Solid-State Drives have no moving parts,
Product Description
Intel Solid-State Drives just got better. The next generation Intel SSD 320 Series offers built-in data protection features, better performance, larger capacities and more value for your money.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
59 of 65 people found the following review helpful.
By Bob Blum
This is my first SSD, and I absolutely love it. Very fast boot up and shut-down;incredibly fast program launch - even monsters like Photoshop: blam - they're on. Since my system worked reasonably well before, I worried about every aspectof this project. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why spend the $250, what if I have boot problems,what if the performance increase is marginal or worse?). Incredibly the installationwas totally quick and flawless. Bravo, Intel! Now for some details. I bought the retail kit ($10 to $25 more than the OEM version). The two cablesare handy (sata power and data), I used the bracket, and even thetiny 3 inch CD with installation instructions was useful. Amazingly,those instructions are not on Intel's website.) They worked flawlessly. I installed it in my 2008 Intel desktop tower that runs Windows XP Pro32-bit and that has an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 processor. This system was topof the line when I bought it, so I really wanted to wait another year beforeupgrading to a 64-bit OS (to get > 4gb of DRAM) and a faster processor(like Ivy Bridge). I love WinXP, and I have a lot of old drivers, so I was hesitantto upgrade to Win7 now or to make any expensive hardware upgrades now.) I think I made the perfect choice, but this decision was not without anxiety. After reading all the reviews for Intel's SSD X25-M (it's Gen 2,34 nano SSDs), it was apparent that most buyers raved about them:their speed and their reliability, but, cruising the internet youfind all kinds of potential worries. I list them here, only to dismiss them.(BTW, the Series 320 SSDs are from Intel's 25 nano fab in Utah: they areeven faster and more reliable than the X25-M series. Although they onlysupport 3gb/sec data transfer, that's all my old mobo can dish out, so that's fine.)1) SSDs, WinXP, and TRIM. This was a worry, since WinXP was written a decade ago,long before SSDs. My worry was that WinXP does not support TRIM, which isa command to tell the SSD to overwrite deleted data. Without TRIM, the efficiencyof the SSD might deteriorate due to unavailable pages. The solution for WinXP isto use a small, free program, the Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox, to perform thisdrive optimization. (Win7 does it automatically.) So, a non-worry -not a reason to upgrade to Win7. BTW, SSDs and TRIM are explained in awell-written 2009 article on AnandTech "The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs."2) SSDs and BIOS or other drive recognition problems. This was a huge worry,since this has been a recurring catastrophe about every five years: having ahard drive that simply does not show up either in Windows, or even worse, not inthe BIOS. I spoke to some professionals; they had never experienced this wheninstalling Intel SSDs on customers desktops. In fact, I did not have to touch theBIOS at all. I just connected the sata power and data cables, and the drivemagically appeared on the BIOS list and in Windows (on the Device Manager drive list).(The 'raptor HD is disconnected for now.)3) Installing Windows (or anything) on the SSD. I need to mention that although,I could SEE the SSD in the Device Manager, it does NOT show up on "My Computer"along with the C drive. The reason is that it ships, of course, unformatted.(I had hoped to just copy my entire mechanical hard drive (a WD 600 gb Velociraptor)to the SSD using Norton Ghost.) Instead, I resorted to reading the directions that came withthe drive on that tiny little CD. Again, Intel to the rescue with their Drive Migration softwareprovided by Acronis. Don't be scared off by the minutiae of that program. In fact, you onlyuse one single command: Clone Now - the rest is automatic. The bottom line is that this was a hugely worthwhile and easy project with athrilling result: incredibly fast performance. I think mechanical drives will go the wayof magnetic tape: for archival storage only and to museums. (I also write aboutthe future of biotech, neuroscience, and AI: see BobBlum.com )PS: Don't stress about mounting the SSD. (See the YouTube "Samsung SSD Awesomeness"with the guy trampolining with 24 SSDs.)
75 of 86 people found the following review helpful.
By B. America
I have a DV7 series HP Pavilion Laptop running Win 7 64-bit with the Hitachi drive that seems to have the life-span of about 18-months on all 3 of my laptops. When I noticed the classic cluster errors, I decided to pick up this SSD drive as an OS only drive and have a second drive as my storage within the laptop.Installation was quick and easy. The migration was a breeze. I've been doing IT for over 15-years: computers, routers, switches, firewalls, so I was expecting the worst and got the best.Here's where it gets bad.About 5 hours into use I get the Blue Screen of Death. No big deal, reboot and figure out what app decided not to play nice. No luck! The drive was bricked! I got another drive and did the entire process again. This time while running OO Defrag I get the BSOD and this drive is bricked too. I moved it to another laptop to look at the drive. The 80-Gig partition turned into an 8-Meg partition. The rest of the drive is missing. Missing as in not even recoverable by FDISK or any other means within Windows.I plugged in "Intel SSD 80 Gig 8" on Google and sure enough a TON of people are having the same problems. The drive just fails randomly and they're left with an 8-Meg drive. Some people are using 3rd party applications to force the drive to recover to factory defaults or just sending them back to Intel. Some even after sending them back to Intel have a failure a month or two later. I already invested nearly 10 hours of time and I am not doing it again. For people considering buying this drive I suggest you pass on it because of the possibility of it being a ticking time bomb in your computer is too much to risk.UPDATE!!!!: After following the 8-meg bug threads the IBM update bricked a bunch of drives. Amazing!!! Firmware update - 4PC10362 intended to fix the issue. Inetel says it's "isolated", but I had 3 drives crash in a week. How isolated can this bug be? As of December 12, 2011 people are still reporting SSD crashes because of this bug and after installing the latest firmware.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
By look7000
I purchased this Intel 320 series 80GB SSD because of my long held faith in Intel and the 5 year warranty. Sadly it looks like there's something wrong with these drives (circa june/july 2011). I installed the drive in my Dell E4300 laptop in late June 2011. Install is smooth - good tools in the kit allow you to connect the drive via USB to clone your hard drive. Once installed it was a beautiful thing. Files open quickly, MS office (powerpoint, word, excel and outlook) open and handle files much more quickly.Then after 7 days the PC froze, and BiOS reported no boot sector. BiOS sees it as a 0GB drive. OK, stuff happens. I returned the unit to Amazon (it was within 30 days) for a replacement. Amazon was excellent, shipping an immediate replacement with 1 day shipping while I was still holding the defective unit.I received the replacement on July 11, 2011. The install again was easy, and the performance is great. Today (Aug 4, 2011) the drive died. My Window 7 system froze and then blue-screened. Just like the first time BiOS reports a 0GB drive and can't find a boot sector. Incidentally, as recommended the Win7 defrag had been disabled.This time i'm returning it for a refund. Since I purchased this drive there are 4 other 1-star user comments reporting similar behavior.
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