Intel335 Series 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD

I'm a very satisfied customer, and would certainly recommend this to anyone looking to speed up their PC experience.When it came time to reinstall Windows, I decided it was time to segregate my OS/programs and my data on two different drives, to speed the boot process and streamline my daily backups. An SSD was a natural choice for a really fast bootup.Based on reliability reviews and my space requirements, I chose this drive.Installation was no harder than any other SATA drive; the plugs are identical. It worked exactly like any other hard drive has ever worked for me; the BIOS identified it and I was able to begin the Win7 installation right away. (I'm avoiding Win8 for now.) The installation was faster than I've ever experienced, and subsequent installations of various software was similarly faster than usual. And of course, the Win7 boot time is blazing. Once my box gets past the BIOS screens and hits the Windows boot, it's up and running in something like 10-15 seconds. Programs launch much faster than ever before, and I really like the fact that I'm no longer listening to that quiet but annoying disk head thrashing sound of a rotating-platter hard drive.If anything, my ONLY complaint is that it's hard to tell when there's heavy disk access going on. I *almost* miss the head thrashing sound as an alert that the PC is having trouble finding something - but not really, because now it doesn't NEED to do that anymore, and I almost never find myself waiting for slow disk access!BONUS: this kit comes with an adapter! You do NOT need to buy a separate 2.5 to 3.5" converter tray; it's included. Cool!

This SSD is great and works as advertised of course. I was wary of their migration software because from past experience it never works very well but I figured Intel could probably do it right. Boy was I wrong. I migrated everything ok using their stuff but soon after started having problems with my windows activation and soon after my computer would shut down owing to errors quite often. Eventually I couldn't boot at all so I reinstalled windows on my old SSD (of course I'd wiped it once I thought windows had installed correctly) and moved the contents back to my old SSD. Then I just did a clean install and it works alright now.The software for maintenance seems to work fine despite occasionally making approximately 20 log files in my C: directory which is disturbing.Overall, the SSD is very quick but I would advise anybody that buys it to just do a clean install of windows and move your files manually or something. Interestingly the SSD raised my windows experience index to 8.1/9.9 (Windows 8) from an SATA II SSD that was like 7.4/7.9 (Windows 7), which going by percentages is actually a decrease. Not sure what that's all about but I'm pretty sure its faster. I haven't done any other benchmarks yet.

Have been using it for a couple months now.Most of the reviews I have seen address as the principal benefit of SSDs fast boot-up speeds. This has been not so nearly as much a difference for me, for reasons beyond Intel's control, or of other SSD manufacturers..I installed the Intel SSD in my HP dv7 laptop as a second internal drive, intending to be able to make it switchable as the bootable drive. Due to weirdness from the designers at HP this is not possible by software: it has to be opened and rewired - actually, the drives must be physically swapped. So although the installation was a little longer and more involved than I thought it should be, it got done eventually.I used a 32 GB flash drive to make a system restoration medium for my 2 year old machine, and then did a fresh install of Windows 7 - using a bare-bones install option that avoided lots of featured software apps that HP feels I needed with the original purchase. Inclusion of that restoration option is a good point for HP.Previously I used the sleep mode rather than shutdown, because a hard reboot more often than not resulted in a "Windows Explorer is not working" error - sometimes requiring multiple reboots until I got a working configuration. In other words my baseline for boot times was typically at least 10 minutes, sometimes a half hour. Sleep mode preserved the configuration as a work-around. But now with the clean install of Windows 7 on the new SSD, that is not an issue.Nevertheless, boot-up times are not so blisteringly fast, especially when I have a CD in the optical drive. It seems the computer wants to scan or test the CD drive every time, and this usually takes about half a minute just by itself. It does that when I wake it up from sleep mode or from a hard reboot. So boot times are not "instantaneous", due to factors beyond the Intel SSD control. But they are faster than they were.Cons: When idle the laptop now is dead silent, but when working, the CPU fan seems to come on more often and longer than before. Previously, I had heard the CPU fan and/or the original 5400 RPM Samsung drive as the background noise. Both are far quieter than desktop hardware systems I used to have.And for reasons I do not understand the new Intel SSD beeps at me every once in a while - even when I have the HP sound button/Beats Audio components switched off.But after a couple months it all works reliably now, and faster, and I have increased my storage space by 240 GB. This capacity seems to be more than enough to load all the apps I use, including a full MS Office install, with room for growth. Data is relegated to the 640 GB Samsung or to a 2 TB external HD.

This Technology is very promising, however, the SSD Product Drivers required and the conflicts in the various operating systems are sometimes difficult to overcome. I Have installed (2) SSD's with one each of windows 7 and windows xp sp2, as external drives. Both were difficult to get up and running correctly. Finally I was able to Get Them Operational. I Am Not Positive yet, about using the ssd as a C: Drive. I Think More Work Is Needed By The SSD and System Manufacturers in the Plug and Play areas. At This Time I Don't Recommend them, unless you have a SSD Knowledgeable Computer Technician Available. I Consider MySelf more than the Average User.

ノートPCのHDDが遅かったので、この製品を買いました。前の型である「Intel SSD 330」と悩みましたが、値段にそんなに差がなかったのでこちらにしました。初めてSSDを使いましたが、とても速いです！エラーなどは無いですが、稀に動きが少し遅くなることがあります。耐久性についてはこれからですが、消費電力も少なく速度も速いのでノートPCにおすすめのSSDです。最後に、簡単にですがベンチマークも測ったので結果を載せておきます↓------------------------------------------------------------------テスト環境PC名：SONY VAIO VPCCA4AJスペック：core i3-2350M、メモリ 6GB、Windows7 64bit SP1HDD接続方法：S-ATA 6Gbpsベンチマーク試験ソフト「CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2」テストサイズ：50MBテスト回数：2回------------------------------------------------------------------テスト結果Sequential：Read = 451.7MB/s 、Write = 324.5MB/sRandom 512KB：Read = 379.0MB/s 、Write = 316.9MB/sRandom 4KB(Queue Depth=1)：Read = 27.74MB/s 、Write = 45.95MB/sRandom 4KB(Queue Depth=32)：Read = 308.8MB/s 、Write = 287.7MB/s-------------------------------------------------------------------

2013年に購入し、Mac Miniにセットして使っています。未だに故障する気配もなく使えています。流石Intel製だなと。

SOTEC　DC101W（WindowsXP)という、以前購入したネットブックを使っています。大きくない（１０．１インチ）のでちょっっとしたスペースで、メールを打ったり、ネットサーフィンをしたりと便利に使っているのですが、さすがに、Ultrabookやタブレットに比べ起動も遅いし、ダウンロードも遅いし、替え時かなぁ・・・と思っていました。最近、１０万円前後でUltrabook（妻用）と１７インチノートPC（Windows8)を２台立て続けに買ったことも有り、ネットブックの代わりになる１０インチくらいのPCを購入する勇気が出ませんでした。そこでDC101Wを延命させてみようと思い、起動時間を含め、動作が許容範囲くらいになってくれれば・・・という思いで、HDD（１２０GB)→SSD（２４０GB)の換装化を試みることにしました。結果、起動時間（砂時計が止まるまで）はHDDの時の２分３０秒くらいから、１分１０秒くらいになりました。Ultrabookが２０秒くらいで立ち上がることを考えれば、全然早くはないですが、ネットブックの延命という措置はとれたか思ってます。大きさは以前のHDD（２．５インチ９．５ｍｍ厚）とほぼ同じ大きさで、何の問題も無く納まりました。当初は、１８０GBのものとどちらを買おうか悩んだのですが、３千円くらいの値段の違いだったので、２４０GBにしました。SSD335SeriesとSSD520Seriesの比較や、他のメーカのSSDとの比較もしました。古いPCなので、スペックが高いものに換装しても、充分な性能が発揮できないだろうと思い、スペックを下げて、３３５Seriesの方を選択、レビューや口コミを読んで、値段も考慮してインテルを選択してみました。HDDからSSDへのクローン化は、先日他のPCのHDD（５１２GB)をSSD（５１２GB)へ換装したときに購入してた、「裸族のお立ち台」を使いました。箱の中に入っていた、コネクターはデスクトップPC用のモノだけでした。私は、当初から「裸族・・・」を使う予定だったので、確認をしませんでしたが、ノートPC用のコネクターが必要な場合は、そちらを購入してください。HDD（１２０GB)からSSD（２４０GB）へのクローン化は、４５分くらいで終わりました。１１０GBくらい未使用部分ができてしまったので、Dドライブに割り当てました。あと何年くらい我慢して使えるか分かりませんが、たちまち最小の支出で済んだので満足しています。

-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : [...]-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 233.302 MB/s Sequential Write : 238.475 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 220.552 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 231.893 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 23.363 MB/s [ 5703.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 69.399 MB/s [ 16943.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 24.127 MB/s [ 5890.3 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 98.317 MB/s [ 24003.2 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 11.3% (25.3/223.6 GB)] (x5) Date : 2013/04/19 16:26:11 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)S-ATA 3Gでの接続です。6Gではありません。吊るしでの接続でIntel' Solid-State Drive Toolbox は使用していません。まあ　こんなものかな？という感じ。OCZ Vector 2.5" 128GB SSDで6G接続をすると、Sequentialの読み書きはこの2倍以上のスピードが出ます。ほかの方の6Gでの接続例での結果を見ても、OCZ Vector 2.5との差は歴然としたものがあります。値段差とインテルの安心感で、性能差を納得するかどうかですね。最新フォームウエアに更新して、Solid-State Drive Toolbox　入れてACHIモードに切り替えて下記結果でした。-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : [...]-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 265.362 MB/s Sequential Write : 229.272 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 249.909 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 231.470 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 23.994 MB/s [ 5857.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 70.525 MB/s [ 17218.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 166.827 MB/s [ 40729.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 157.925 MB/s [ 38556.0 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 14.7% (32.8/223.6 GB)] (x5) Date : 2013/04/20 17:09:44 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

2013年10月に購入し、3年以上トラブル無く動作しています。dynabook/R731のhddをssdに交換して使用しています。但し、ssdのケースが厚くPCのフタが閉まらない為、ssdのフタを外し実装しました。(写真参照)長時間、使用していますが、特に問題なく動作しています。^_^「ssdの交換、ssdのフタの取り外しなど、言うまでもなく自己責任ですので」