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Intel 520 Series 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell February 6, 2012 Highlights-new, SSD Drives

PCMark 7 includes 7 PC tests for Windows 7, combining more than 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. Specifically designed to cover the full range of PC hardware from netbooks and tablets to notebooks and desktops, PCMark 7 offers complete PC performance testing for Windows 7 for home and business use.

The Intel 520 Series 240gb SSD delivers some of the best results we have achieved in PCMark 7, for a total of 5336 points.

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14 comments

  1. Simon
    February 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Intel warranty is good, I had a CPU fail on me, without overclocking it and it was replaced under their terms. I wuld trust intel more than anyone with my money. great drive.

  2. Francis
    February 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Looks like a good drive, but im surprised to see Intel moving to sandforce.

  3. David R
    February 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Good indeed ! the 60GB tempts me for my new system as boot drive.

  4. Uriel
    February 6, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    I wonder when a 240GB SSD like this will cost £299 inc vat. still some time off I fear 🙁

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