Intel 320 Series 2.5" 160GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDSA2BW160G3H (Recertified)

Pros: Bought 4 for a RAID and all have Warranty from Intel until 11-26-2016. Slightly better than the listed 90 Days. Intel's SSD Toolbox shows all 4 have 90+ % Life Remaining! After running a series of 'Wipe' and 'Verify' on all 4 SSD's individually, none failed with zero errors. Highest hours used out of the 4 SSD's received showed approximately 82,000 hours of use. Not bad considering these have a 1,2000,000 MTBF rating. At the current price of $39.95 each (08-2016) and even though these are Intel's Series 320 SSD's (SATA II - 270MB Max Read and 165MB Max Write), these are still a good investment especially if you are trying to bring some life back into some 'older' PC's, notebook's, or laptop's. Newegg's shipping Dept did a great job this time! Each SSD was individually packaged within an anti-static bag within an anti-static bubble drive protector within a cardboard drive box inside a larger shipping box. Good Job!!!

Cons: None at this time.

Overall Review: These are for the bare SSD's only. No cables or mounting brackets are included in case you need them.

Pros: - Drive has about 95% life write cycles remaining, according to the Intel SSD toolbox (about 50 TB total writes) - 160 GB Intel SSD for just CAN$ 40 - Serial number check on Intel SSD support site gives 4 months of Intel-supported warranty remaining, better than promised

Cons: These appear not to have been refurbished in any way, they are used drives - not a concern for me

Overall Review: 36,000 hours on this drive with about 100 power cycles - very likely pulls from a larger server deployment.

Pros: Drive I received only had a little over 500GB in writes to it, it has 99.5% of its estimated life left. WAY more than expected for a refurb drive, this will vary of course from purchase to purchase. Wouldn't worry much about this being a refurb, especially at this price! Great to throw into something just to get that old HD out of it, and or course reliable.

Cons: None that I can see!

Overall Review: Got one of these to replace an HD in a laptop for a customer of mine, was impressed to see how little the drive was actually used before being refurbished and resold. Drive is fast, and you can download Intel's Data Migration Tool to easily clone your old drive to this one. Run CHKDSK first! I didn't and ended up having the clone fail halfway before running a CHKDSK and having the clone complete without a hitch.

Pros: Purchased 3 of these, Intel Toolbox indicates "estimated life remaining" was 95%-98% - super awesome!

Cons: None

Pros: Fast (honestly, I can't tell the difference in real life usage between a speed demon -at work- and this older part). Lots of life remaining, can't be bothered to benchmark it when Windows login appears almost instantly.

Cons: None, and this is a SATA II. It's that fast. Bought 2 more, either for a RAID 0 or to upgrade the laptops around the house. At least one laptop will get the treatment, the one easier to dissect. Still pondering if a RAID 0 is even worth.

Overall Review: Wish shipping from ON to QC was free, but then, it's only 6 duckling bucks. Let's hope the other 2 drives are not middle-aged...if they are the same lot, I'm a happy camper.

Pros: Breath's new life into an ancient, budget laptop. The 320 Series I have at work running medical pc's. No issues in 4 years. Matter-of-fact, it's the same drive I use at work.

Cons: Refurb came with 36,802 hours on and 48265 GB's written!

Overall Review: This was bought because it was the same price as a low end 120 drive. I know that refurbs are a gamble, but I got taken. Then again, if it fails 3 years from now, was I taken? If I can get 3 more years out of it, that would put me in at 8 years on this laptop. I think a new laptop would be in line with age. Bought this laptop Xmas of 2010 or 2011. It's a G72 with a processor that is not an i3, but a pentium. The read/writes I got are 254 MB/s and 167 MB/s respectively.

Pros: I bought two of these drives to replace 160GB WDC 5400rpm drives in 7-8 year old laptops, a Dell Inspiron 1525 (Windows 7) and an Acer Aspire 4720z (dual boot Ubuntu - Windows 7). On the pro side: - These drives are inexpensive. - Both have good or excellent remaining life (about 87% and more than 95%). - Speed improvement is stunning at boot time. On the Dell (Windows 7 boot): getting to the login screen dropped from 75s to 23s, and getting from there to the desktop from 55s to 5s. On the Acer (Ubuntu 14.04 boot): getting to the login screen dropped from 60s to 30s, and from there to the desktop from 35s to 11s. - Loading applications is a lot snappier in both laptops. - In my case the source and the target drives were exactly of the same size, measured at the byte level. This was very easy to copy the raw data after booting with a Linux usb stick, using an external drive as an intermediate device, without having to deal in any manner with the partitions, MBR and partition table, which were blindly copied.

Cons: - I had one minor problem: the Intel 320 are thinner than usual HDDs. With the Dell Inspiron 1525 the HDD must be slided in a tray in a bay on the side. To get the SSD connected to the SATA interface at the end of the bay, I had to pad the SSD with a piece of cardboard. - The Intel SSD toolbox does not work on Linux, and on Windows only works on a native SATA interface, not USB. Having no Windows desktop, I was not able to check the health and the remaining life of the drives before copying the laptop OSes. - These are SATA 2 drives, not SATA 3. This does not matter for the laptops I upgraded, but this would for my desktop.

Overall Review: Theses drives are perfect to put some new life in aging laptops, for which the hard drive performance is usually the bottleneck. At that price, I highly recommend them. For more performance data: I connected these drives on a SATA 3 port in my desktop and ran the R/W performance tests provided by the Ubuntu disk manager. These tests use 100 samples of 10 MB for R/W, and 1000 samples for access time. The better of my 2 Western Digital HDD is a Scorpio Blue (SATA 2), which gives these average scores: - Read: 51.4 MB/s - Write: 47,8 MB/s - Access time: 16.85 ms An Intel 320 160GB SSD gives these scores: - Read: 267.8 MB/s - Write: 173.9 MB/s - Access time: 0.07 ms (!!) Apart from the incredibly fast access time, you can see that the read performance is close to the max SATA 2 throughput of 270 MB/s and the write little more than the max 170 MB/s.

Pros: Fast SSD for very low price

Cons: 36 000 hours on the drive. More than I expected. 313 000 gb in total host reading, again , a lot more than I expected. I hope this drive will last a least 2 year. only sata 2 ??