Intel 520 Series Cherryville SSDSC2CW120A310 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - OEM

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Intel 520 Series Cherryville SSDSC2CW120A310 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - OEM

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2.5"
120GB
SATA III

Stay ahead of the competition when you level up to 6.0 gigabits per second (Gb/s) performance. Intel Solid-State Drives (Intel SSDs) continue to evolve with the Intel SSD 500 Family. Available in a wide range of capacities, the Intel Solid-State Drive 520 Series delivers leading performance for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)-based computers in capacities ranging up to 480 GB. By combining Intel's leading 25nm NAND flash memory technology with SATA 6Gb/s interface support, the Intel SSD 520 Series delivers sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s. The industry-standard 2.5-inch form factor enables interchangeability with existing hard disk drives (HDDs) and native SATA HDD drop-in replacement with the enhanced performance, reliability, and ruggedness offered by an SSD.

The Intel SSD 520 Series also offers built-in data protection features including Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit Encryption, End-to-End Data Protection, and Data Compression. Now that your work is safe, use the world-class performance of the Intel SSD 520 Series to dominate your gaming competition or to reach new levels of creativity and productivity. The choice is yours!

New level of performance Built with compute-quality Intel 25 nanometer (nm) NAND Flash Memory, the Intel SSD 520 Series’ 120GB SSD accelerates PC performance where it matters most. With random read performance up to 25,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and sequential read performance of up to 550 megabytes per second (MB/s), your PC will blaze through the most demanding applications and will handle intense multi-tasking needs. Couple that read performance with random writes up to 40,000 IOPS and sequential writes of 500 MB/s to unleash your applications. With the Intel SSD 520 Series, Intel continues to deliver solutions designed to satisfy the most demanding gamers, media creator and technology enthusiasts.
Superior data protection features The new Intel SSD 520 Series offers Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit encryption capabilities to keep your data safe. In the event of theft or loss of your computer, you have the peace of mind that your personal data is secured by an advanced encryption technology. Additionally, the Intel SSD 520 Series contains “End-to-End Data Protection” ensuring integrity of stored data from the computer to the SSD and back.

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General

Brand: Intel

Series: 520 Series Cherryville

Model: SSDSC2CW120A310

Device Type: Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Used For: Consumer

Physical

Form Factor: 2.5"

Capacity: 120GB

Memory Components: MLC

Interface: SATA III

Controller: SandForce

Height: 9.5mm

Performance

Max Sequential Read: Up to 550 MB/s (SATAIII)
Up to 280 MB/s (SATAII)

Max Sequential Write: Up to 500 MB/s (SATAIII)
Up to 260 MB/s (SATAII)

4KB Random Read: Up to 25,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write: Up to 40,000 IOPS

MTBF: 1,200,000 hours

Features

Features: Out-of-the-Box Write Performance (IOPS): up to 80,000 IOPS

Environmental

Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ +70°C

Manufacturer Warranty

Parts: 5 years limited
All Intel SSD 520 products sold in the OEM boxes have a five-year limited warranty term; however, the warranty includes a "Media Wearout" limitation. The Media Wearout limitation provides that the warranty shall expire when the usage of the drive has reached a predetermined usage limit established by Intel, which could result in a warranty term much shorter than five years for drives used in heavy-use, enterprise applications. The Media Wearout is determined by Intel's implementation of the SMART attribute "E9" Media Wearout indicator (as measured by and shown in the Intel SSD Toolbox, www.intel.com/go/ssdtoolbox). At any point during the warranty term, if the Media Wearout Indicator reads "1", as measured by the Intel SSD Toolbox, then the drive has reached its wear limit and the Limited Warranty at that point expires, regardless of how much time may have been remaining on the five-year term. This Media Wearout limitation is imposed due to the greater workload demands of enterprise/data center deployment on SSDs.

Labor: 5 years limited

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Warranty

Limited Warranty period (parts): 5 years
Limited Warranty period (labor): 5 years

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Tyler 3/29/2013 5:53:51 AM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5Noticeably fast, great for gamers. Pros: -Fast enough for me, I notice a difference if I put games on it or use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology alongside it. It's able to quickly access Fraps Video and Picture files much much faster than what I had before. Cons: -An absolute awful paint job compared to Samsungs series SSDs. It was bare uncoated metal on mine that easily scratched. -I'm not a big fan of case badges, but if they give them to me I'll put them on, but the case badge for this SSD is absolutely horrendous. -Funny to note that both cons have to deal with design, not performance. Intel should stick with their technology and forget about design. Other Thoughts: -If you're interested in design, such as you want this to be in an external SSD for a laptop, not a good buy. If you're going to have this buried in the desktop, absolutely worth the buy however there may be better SSDs for the price. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
waxonwaxoffmyson 2/19/2013 9:23:08 AM Tech Level: 5/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 4/5Great SSD Pros: Very Easy To Install very fast, not the fastest but i was more interested in dependability Cons: Not as fast as some drives on the market Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 2/14/2013 12:01:51 PM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5120GB SSD Pros: Easy install, blazing fast Cons: Not free Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 2/4/2013 11:15:30 PM Tech Level: 3/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 2/5Something's not right here... Pros: Fast, quiet, and low watt power usage for my laptop (slightly better battery life) Cons: Simply doesn't work with my Macbook Pro. Freezes and crashes every hour or so and just makes my system totally unstable. I've read a lot reviews about this and it looks like I'm not the only one. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I think it might be a firmware issue, but my SSD was shipped with the most recent one (as of 2/4/13). Sad to say I won't be using an Intel SSD until this issue has been addressed. Other Thoughts: I will be looking at other SSD brands for my Macbook Pro. I had just wished I returned it sooner considering Newegg's return policy..now I'm stuck with paperweight 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Oledog 1/9/2013 9:59:30 AM Tech Level: 3/5 Ownership: 3/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5Good So Far Pros: Installed easily. Painless software install from Intel site. Got it for $99.00. Used the Intel data migration software, worked great. Cons: None Other Thoughts: Only time will tell if this is a good drive. So far it's doing great. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 12/17/2012 5:13:02 PM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5ALL of the speed is MINE Pros: I will never go back to a HDD after this. I waited a while for SSD's. This is my first. 15 seconds boot time and unbelievable install/transfer speeds. Reliable and fast. Have an HDD for data/movies/music. literally save 35 seconds every restart/start-up and tons of time while using it. Cons: Can't think of one. Price maybe? but it's so fast and reliable. Other Thoughts: I researched and read everywhere I could to get a sense of what I should buy. it was between the Intel 520 and the Samsung 830 series. The 830 is a little cheaper and a little slower, which means it was completely sold out. I am more than happy with this. I get a little faster speeds than equitable samsung 830;s and the firmware and everything is GREAT on the intel. Reliable and fast. love this ssd. I usually try to get like 7/10 in performance and 9/10 in reliability to buy a reasonable price point device for almost anything with electronics. This is probably an 8/10 in performance and a 10/10 in reliability for just a few dollars more. And now I probably pushed myself into always wanting to buy intel SSD's from here on out. They just made another loyal customer for their memory market. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Roe5685 11/10/2012 11:52:44 PM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 3/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5King of the SSDs Pros: Best bang for the buck of several SSD choices. I have a few older SSD raid pair 0's off raid cards and they give me hd tune 200 score. this raid 0 pair off an Asus mb gives me a thousand! ( thats 1000 ) for $250 versus $420 for OCZ Revodrive 3 X2 giving an HD tune score of only 400. My passmark score of over 8K was higher too. My Atto score of 1000 was lower than the ocz 1400/1600. Cons: Can't think of any. Other Thoughts: I had trouble with the installation. Was very time consuming. I was not able to copy over. I attribute that to using the built in raid rather than a raid card and my inexperience with using MB built in raid. Consider a raid 0 card if you too have trouble. They start at $40.00. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Codebender 11/6/2012 12:34:58 PM Tech Level: 5/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 3/5Great for 5 months Pros: fast Cons: Failed completely after 5 months of use. Instantly BSOD's any machine it's connected to, even via USB/SATA adaptor, meaning data recovery is impossible. This is not uncommon for SSDs, but they usually last longer. Not what I expect when I pay a premium for a top-tier product. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 11/5/2012 1:09:56 PM Tech Level: 3/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5fast Pros: this thing is perfect. i only have windows 7, chrome, and spotify on this bad boy and man is it fast. i have no idea what i did without a SSD before now. Cons: none at all 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
troyBORG 11/3/2012 9:50:10 AM Tech Level: 3/5 Ownership: 2/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5Fast Pros: Windows7 gave this SSD a 7.9 rating, and when I boot up the PC the win7 loading animation doesn't even finish before it loads up. Cons: none Other Thoughts: I came from an older OCZ Vertex LE, and this thing is crazy fast! 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
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