One of the best upgrades I've ever installed. The SSD is ridiculously fast. The computer starts up and shuts down in seconds instead of minutes. I was concerned about screwing up the install, which involves moving all the OS files from the hard drive to the SSD.

Fast; great install software

Nothing yet

Picked this up for the latest machine I put together, I'm mostly sticking to Intel and Samsung Pro these days. I've had about 3 out of 5 OCZ SSD's die on me at the 1.5/2 yr mark. The few builds I've done with Intel SSD'd are still going nice and solid.

Intel controller; nice and fast; decent sale price

None

I put this bad boy in my old sony VAIO FZ285u (2007 model) and the difference in performance is insane! The laptop boots up in seconds instead of endless minutes.

Improved Windows games and application speed. Only minor issue, I had to reinstall Windows from scratch since the migration didn't allow to migrate partition only.

SSDs have made their presence felt across more consumer products, these days, which range from notebooks to the hot new topic in town, Ultrabooks, that primarily use SSDs for storage.

Review The rumour mill was working overtime throughout 2011 with suggestions that Intel was considering forsaking the Marvell controllers it had used for its previous generation of consumer SSDs, the 510 series.

It works on sata 1 i did test it 120mb/s read :)) No seriously i should update my system Nice drive 15min for windows 7 install I feel little to no difference at boot time 17sec but seriously i should update my system

For every season, there is a spin. Intel's first consumer SSDs, the X-25M series, didn't have the fastest performance, but they gained a reputation for reliability. We had high hopes for Intel's 320 Series SSDs, which turned out to be really great 3Gb/s SATA drives, at a time when everyone else was...

Fast SF-2281 controller and 25nm NAND; Intel reliability

$50 more expensive than near-identical drives from Patriot and OCZ

The Intel SSD 520 breaks through setting new SATA6 performance standards due to three important features: High quality synchronous NAND, a more mature controller and more polished firmware.

Fastest SATA6 SSD for consumers; "End to End" 256bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard; Great overall performance; SandForce controller polished firmware

Still a costly upgrade for regular consumers

SandForce is back in town and it's here to stay. Intel's 520 Series is a full replacement for the 510 Series, but utilize the SF-2281 controller and custom Intel firmware to deliver one of the best SSDs we seen to date.