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Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 9:51 AM
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half of skyrim is traveling or alt tabing to google how to play the game.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 10:03 AM
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 12:50 PM
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Finallyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I've been waiting for the 520 to come out since the November "release" date.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:38 PM
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Apparently they haven't reviewed the high-end cards. The Revo3 x2 has 3x the read/write speeds :)
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:41 PM
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hardly apples to apples, a revo is a bunch of ssd's essentially in R0, not a single drive
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:49 PM
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doorules
hardly apples to apples, a revo is a bunch of ssd's essentially in R0, not a single drive
Agreed. I may have to invest in one of these. I love my older Intel SSD's and now that they have a Sandforce controller, it's like a dream come true!
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 3:35 PM
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I like everything...except the price 
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 3:50 PM
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I like everything...except the price
Totally! I just posted in the "hot deals" section about this item. 358 dollars for 180 GB, um, not right now.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 6:45 PM
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 7:03 PM
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Still happy with my 160GB G2 and my 160GB 320. I only use my G2 for my Games and the 320 for my laptop. Don't think a faster drive would net me any anything. Just less money for what I use them for. Still a crazy fast SSD.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 06, 2012 8:34 PM
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do want as an OS drive
one day... one day
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:16 AM
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:18 AM
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The scores & performance looks good, but do they really out perform Corsairs Force GT or Kingston HyperX? I doubt little if any for the price. I'm not putting them down, great drives. But ouch on the price!
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:52 AM
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buggyruth
The scores & performance looks good, but do they really out perform Corsairs Force GT or Kingston HyperX? I doubt little if any for the price. I'm not putting them down, great drives. But ouch on the price!
They outperformed the OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS just slightly, which performs the same as Corsair Force GT and Kingston HyperX. They all perform right around the same level, so it comes down to price and brand choice/reliability.
peeler05
half of skyrim is traveling or alt tabing to google how to play the game.
gutcheck
I just left my son in the sink to run upstairs and download Black Mesa
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 8:14 AM
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With that said, this "price" is rather high.
Doorules, thanks for the benchmarks! Awesome to know if you have the scratch you can make a system that reads/writes that fast.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 8:57 PM
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It's an ok price assuming the firmware works.... I would have to assume since Intel released them that the firmware is in good shape.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:06 PM
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You didnt happen to run that same benchmark with only one of the drives before you raided did you?
I'd be interested to see the comparison.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:41 PM
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Here ya go... 
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Friday, February 10, 2012 9:58 AM
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I'll be saving up for one of these. I only use Intel SSDs due to their reliability. My G2 is still running like a champ :)
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:30 AM
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I ordered a 520 in 120GB size and Win 7 Pro 64 for my mom. I'll be giving her one of my i7s as well. Hopefully the new SSD will be a vast improvement over what she has now which is an older Seagate HD.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Saturday, February 11, 2012 7:27 PM
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I ordered a 120GB. Intel FTW. I had issues with my OCZ.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:51 AM
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Been in R0 now for over two weeks with OS installed, very good cdm numbers, most especially the 4k r/w are just awesome. 
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:18 AM
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Sigh. 150 for the 60GB, if only I had the money. It seems like it's the same price when SSD's first came out 
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:30 AM
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Xtrem
Sigh. 150 for the 60GB, if only I had the money. It seems like it's the same price when SSD's first came out
They're still expensive, but much less expensive than they used to be. When the first Intel desktop SSDs came out, the $60 GB one was over $300 if I'm not mistaken.
peeler05
half of skyrim is traveling or alt tabing to google how to play the game.
gutcheck
I just left my son in the sink to run upstairs and download Black Mesa
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Sunday, February 12, 2012 2:48 PM
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I was going to go with a 120GB 510 but found a sweet deal on a 256 SAMSUNG 830 drive.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:16 PM
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+1 If you like my Mods-Rig http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=78759 COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 / EVGA Z77-FTW / Intel I7-3770K / 2 X Corsair Force Series GT 240GB. SSD Raid-0 / Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX / G.SKILL Trident X Series F3-2400C10D-16GTX / 2 X EVGA GeForce GTX 670-FTW+4GB. (04G-P4-3673-KR) with EK GeForce 680 GTX VGA Liquid Cooling Blocks - Acetal CSQ (EK-FC680 GTX - Acetal CSQ) / Swiftech Maelstrom 51/4" dual bay reservoir with dual MCP35X pumps / RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) Copper / XSPC RX360 Rad & XSPC EX140
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Monday, February 13, 2012 11:56 AM
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Wow. In addition to stuff we knew was going to go up (IE. seq writes), even the latencies seem to cut in half with the R0 config. You sure you can't feel the difference in the O/S? I'm tempted to buy this just to watch my compile times be decimated.
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Re:Intel 520 SSD Review
Saturday, February 18, 2012 2:49 PM
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I installed Windows 7 SP1 64-bit on this new SSD. The install took about 5 minutes before being done. Most of that was waiting for install files to copy from the DVD. Once that was done, the rest only took a couple minutes. I'm so far impressed with unit. I think I may pickup one or two more of these for other systems at some point.
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