I'm surprised any computers ship without SSDs these days, they are simply that much faster, quieter, and cooler than traditional hard drives. I replaced my laptop hard drive with this SSD. It was a very easy swap procedure. The result is a computer so much faster that it's astonishing.

Custom-built a desktop for my younger siblings to use for school. My setup is as follow: i5-4690k, Gigabyte Z97MX G5, Corsair H60 water cooler, Antec 750W Gold Cert, Radeon 7790, 32G GSkills 1333 (re-using my old RAM's), 240G 730 Series SSD, WD blue 1TB, Corsair mATX box and

Just bought this drive about a month ago and could not be any happier; Running Win 8.1 x64-Bit OS and boot time is less than 8 seconds from the moment the power button is pushed to windows screen; Perfect size for an OS drive

None at this point

got this on sale for under 300 bucks. Incredible bang for buck. Couldn't be happier.

fast; 5 year warranty; it's intel; Price

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Used as a system hard drive with Windows 7. Great speed and reliable. Sturdy structure.

Intel has largely been absent from the high-end SSD market for many years, which has been a real head-scratcher, considering the original X-25M's dominance back in 2009. That all changes this month with the release of its all-new 730 series SSD .

Five-year warranty; 70GB write/day; fast enough; Intel reliability

Too expensive; not the fastest; consumes a lot of power

In the Intel SSD 730 Series 240GB, we criticized the comparatively low sequential write rate. The larger version with 480 GB no longer has this proble: the performance when writing is on par with other high-end SSDs.

Outstanding performance; Good long-term performance; Specified write load of 70 GB per day; Five-year warranty

No support for eDrive

Overall, the 730 Series is the most expensive drive on test per gigabyte, but if you want speed at the SATA limit and a formal guarantee of endurance, the Intel SSD will deliver both.

The Intel 730 Series of SSDs consists of 240GB and 480GB capacities; there's no 1TB version as yet. The 240GB model isn't particularly cheap, costing 62p per GB. The 480GB model is slightly better value at 58p per GB, but this is still distinctly more than rival SSDs from companies such as SanDisk...

Fantastic SSD for the price; I needed a larger SSD but I wanted high-dependency and excellent performance, and this drive delivers both.

Just a couple of months ago we shared some thoughts about what Intel's consumer-class SSDs might be like if the manufacturer had developed its own controllers instead of partnering with SandForce. It didn't take much imagination to see the outcome.