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- Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel Solid-State Drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet
- Designed to satisfy the most demanding users and technology enthusiasts
- Random read performance of 38,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS)
- Couple that performance with random writes of 14,000 IOPS and sequential writes of 130MB/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.
- Included in the box: SSD, quick install guide, mini CD-ROM with warranty, desktop install kit:
- 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
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Intel 320 series Ssd info:
This Ssd conforms to Sata 2 specifications (A maximum of 3 Gigabits per second replacement speed).
The form factor of this Ssd is 2.5" x 9.5mm same as a acceptable laptop hard drive.
Intel extended their small warranty for the 320 series Ssd from 3 years to 5 years.
Items included with the Ssd:
A 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch drive bay adapter (to mount this in your desktop machine).
1 Mini Cd with Intel's Ssd factory Guide & 5 year small Warranty documentation.
1 package of screws to mount the drive bay adapter.
1 package of screws to mount the Ssd.
1 Sata data cable.
1 4 pin Molex to Sata power adapter.
1 info pamphlet on "Important Web Links" pointing you to the Intel website for the newest free Ssd tools and data migration software.
1 Intel "Speed Demon" sticker.
The specs for this Ssd from Intel:
A Mean Time between Failure (Mtbf) of 1.2 million hours & 50,000 Power On/Off Cycles (that's roughly 137 time a day for 365 days)
A 5 years Minimum beneficial Life/Endurance Rating.
"The Ssd will have a minimum of five years of beneficial life under typical client workloads with up to 20 Gb of host writes per day."
My experience with these Ssds:
I own 2 of these 320 series 300Gb Ssds. One's in my desktop gaming rig (it's been Fast & Rock Solid!), purchased from NewEgg in April when they had a 20% off sale, and the one I purchased today from Amazon will go into my laptop.
After installing the Ssd in my desktop machine, my Windows experience Index climbed from a 5.9 to a 7.3, the drive itself received a sub-score of 7.6 but because my older Nvidia� GeForce� Gtx 275 and having the Windows 7 Aero shell on, pulled the thorough score down.
After installing the Ssd in my laptop, my Windows experience Index climbed from a 5.9 to a 7.1 with Windows 7 Aero shell on, not bad for a laptop.
As for longevity, I don't know. I've been using the one on my main motor for about 7 months now, there has been zero hiccups or glitches. The Ssd I installed in my laptop yesterday is actually problem free so far...
Disk entrance carrying out on the desktop & laptop have actually kicked it into high gear, Firefox was always slow to load from a cold start but now, it's noticeably quicker. Older games like Half Life2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead2, load actually fast now, those games were never "disk bound" except for the load times.
Things to be aware of:
Solid State Drive (Sdd) and their Hard Disk Drive (Hdd) mechanical counterparts, like all things electrical & mechanical made by humans, they have a "infant mortality" rate to them. If they don't fail within a year they are probably good for the next 5+ years.
Bottom line:
The carrying out is "eye opening fast"! My desktop & laptop were pretty fast motor to start with but now I can actually say they are fast machines.
Boot times have been cut roughly in half, application load times are roughly instantaneous, virus scan times on the boot drive is crazy fast. There are many reviews of this Ssd on the web that have benchmark results, sites like Pc Perspective has a chronicle titled: "Intel-320-Series-300Gb-Ssd-Performance-Review" and Anandtech's chronicle titles: "intel-ssd-320-review" (just google that title, it should be the first link) just to name a couple of sites that help me make my buy descision.
Despite the one bug that the updated firmware fixed, Intel's Ssd track narrative is solid, they make trustworthy Ssds. As mentioned earlier, my first Intel Ssd (purchased in April 2011) is the boot drive in my desktop machine, My second Intel Ssd (purchased in November 2011) is the boot drive in my laptop, "Put your money where your mouth is" I guess I did just that.
Yes these are expensive drives, if you need the speed growth they are worth it. Just wait for a sale before buying.
Would I buy this again? Yes.
Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes.
Bill
- Warning: Wall of text to corollary are tips about installing the Ssd -
Enable the Ahci driver in the Bios before installing the Os. Do this for a fresh setup of Windows, enabling this on an existing setup of Windows can be sort of tricky.
Having a second Hdd in the motor to store the disk image makes the setup of the Ssd so much easier, you can also store the disk image on a external Usb Hdd, or burn the image to several Dvds.
1) First get rid of any temp files, empty your browser cache, unused program setup files, all unnecessary junk, and empty the Recycle Bin; you don't need to make the drive image any bigger that it has to be, seriously, you want a small image.
If the Hdd you are production an image of is larger (in Gigabytes) than the Ssd:
a) Move as much data as you can (like music) off to other drive.
b) Go into Disk Management, right click on your C: drive and click on Shrink Volume, give yourself maybe 2048 Megabytes of wiggle room
and shrink your partition or else the Microsoft Image recovery tool will choke and give you a "No recoverable disk" error message.
2) I used Windows 7's Backup & Restore utility to image my boot (C:\) drive and store the image on the 2nd Hdd.
3) You'll be prompted to generate a "system fix disc", find a blank Cd and corollary the prompts to burn yourself one and leave the Cd in the machine.
4) If your motor is set up to boot from the Cd drive then simply reboot, if not, please go into your Bios and change the boot order to have the Cd as the first boot device.
5) Among other things the fix disc should find your backup image of your C:\ drive, if not just point it to where you stored it.
6) My memory is a bit fuzzy, I installed the Ssd about 7 months ago, the Ssd comes unformatted from Intel and I'm pretty sure that the theory fix disc will format the Ssd before it loads the image onto it (it has to or else you wouldn't be able to write to the Ssd).- Edit - I just installed the new Intel Ssd in my laptop, the theory fix disc imaging tool don't care if the new drive is formatted or not, it will do it if the new drive needs it.
7) take off the theory fix disc and reboot, you're roughly done.
8) After your motor boots from the Ssd (notice the speed) you should go to intel.com/go/ssdtoolbox and download the newest version of their toolbox and setup it. In the "Toolbox" you'll find "Intel Ssd supervision Tools" under that, you'll find the "System Configuration Tuner", run that tool to configure your theory for optimal Ssd carrying out & life, also run the "Intel Ssd Optimizer" once a week to prevent slow-down of the Ssd.
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9) All of the current Intel 320 series Ssds will have the newest firmware, as of today. 11/08/2011, the newest firmware version is 4Pc10362), my new Ssd had the newest firmware installed.
Tips:
Trim = Garbage range or disk cleanup for Ssds, Windows 7 natively supports Trim, Windows Xp will hold Trim via the Intel Ssd Optimizer tool in their Toolbox.
Enable the Ahci driver in the Bios before installing Windows, it's tricky to do after Windows has been installed but it's do-able.
Move your "My Documents" folder to your 2nd Hdd if you have one.
In the Intel Ssd Toolbox, run the "Intel Ssd Optimizer" tool once a week to prevent Ssd slow-down.
Never use your disk defrag utility on an Ssd (doing so will shorten its life).
Info on the "bug" the Intel 320 series Ssds had:
July ~ August 2011 a bug was discovered in Intel's 320 series Ssd...
8/17/2011 3:30:00 Pm Anand Lal Shimpi, (of anandtech.com fame, yes, That Anand) wrote an update titled "Intel Ssd 320 Firmware Posted, Addresses Bad Context 13x Error" He reports "Intel announced that it had found the root cause of the power cycle bug that could leave your Ssd 320 in a mostly unusable 8Mb state..."
From Intel:
"For users unfamiliar with the issue, an Intel Ssd 320 Series drive may exhibit a drive capacity of 8Mb and an electronic serial # field containing a message of "Bad_Ctx 0000013x" caused by an unexpected power loss under exact conditions. Once this error occurs, no data on the Ssd can be accessed and the user cannot write to or read from the Ssd."
Intel has posted a firmware update for the Intel� Ssd 320 Series (firmware 4Pc10362) which addresses the Bad Context 13x Error Aka "Power Cycle Bug"
To get the newest firmware please Google this: Intel� Sata Solid-State Drive Firmware update Tool and pick the link from "downloadcenter.intel.com"
Direct link to that page: (...)
There's an Intel video on YouTube on how to update your firmware, it's titled "Intel Ssd How To Series - Updating Firmware"
Direct link to the video: (...)
I hope this helps
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