Super fast and easy to install. My tech installed it and said he never has one fail. The migration software is the best in the industry with a flawless data transfer from my previous hard drive. You pay a little more than from competing companies but as he says you get what you pay for.
Looks great I've configured them on a 2 drive Raid0 array adding my 3rd one when it arrives on Wednesday, I ran Aida64 disk benchmark on them and in Raid0 it was reading 1100MBPS that's like 1GB per second, I couldn't run a write test as it would have destroyed everything on the drive but in...
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.
It has been a few years since Intel launched a new suite of solid-state drives (SSDs) in the enthusiast market, but the $449 480GB Intel 730 Series SSD (SSDSC2BP480G4R5) is designed to mark Intel's return with a vengeance. The new SSD leverages the same controllers and NAND hardware that Intel uses for its top-end server parts, with an excellent combination of performance and reliability for professional SSDs. The 480GB version of the Intel 730 Series($587.09 at Amazon) contains 1GB of DDR3-1600 and an unusually large pool of storage—528GB rather than the 512GB we'd typically expect. This additional storage is used for overprovisioning, i.e., having additional NAND flash on board that's reserved as replacement memory in case part of the original pool goes bad. All SSDs offer some degree of overprovisioning, but the 730 Series gives a bit more buffer room than most. Like the Crucial m500 (960GB)($299.85 at Amazon) that we reviewed recently, the Intel 730 Series uses an internal pa...
Intel's reputation for high-quality storage makes the Intel 730 Series SSD enterprise solid-state drive a good choice for professionals who can afford it.
Robust enough for professional workstations; Offers Intel's data center reliability and performance in a consumer drive; Healthy 5-year warranty
Expensive; Overclocked configuration doesn't offer clear performance benefit
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