Testseek.co.uk have collected 119 expert reviews of the Intel 2.5 inch 730 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel 2.5 inch 730 Series SATA600.
March 2014
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119 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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1783 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
A large 50GB of writes per day warranted
High read Performance
Full metal shroud
The Intel SSD 730 Series has a high endurance rating and comes with a five-year warranty. The drive offers a huge boost in performance compared with regular hard drives and can handle RAID configurations
Good warranty
Datacentreclass integrity
Toptier performance
5 year warranty with 70GB of data rated per day
Incompressible and compressible performance is very strong
IOPS performance
Intel drives have proven to be very reliable since they launched
Built in capacitors act as a data safety measure
The editors didn't like
Poor write speed
The new drive doesn't support encryption
And its performance isn't the best among similarly priced SSDs
Expensive
A little more expensive than some leading competitor drives at same capacity
240GB drive takes a 200 MB/s write hit compared to the 480GB drive
Kitguru says
An excellent drive from Intel and one geared for long term reliability with balanced all round
240GB drive takes a 200 MB/s write hit compared to the 480GB drive (400MB in Raid 0)
An excellent drive from Intel and one geared for long term reliability with b
The Intel SSD 730 is based on Intel's own controller which was previously used in their enterprise SSDs. Intel has managed to increase the performance of the new SSD thanks to the higher clock speeds of both the controller and the flash memory. Performa...
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Published: 2014-02-28, Author: Christopher , review by: tomshardware.co.uk
Word on the streets is that no self-respecting 11-year-old boy can resist computer hardware with a skull on it. It's probably a shame, then, that there aren't many 11-year-olds in the prosumer category, sporting wallets fat enough to drop twice as much mo...
The Intel SSD 730 Series has a high endurance rating and comes with a five-year warranty. The drive offers a huge boost in performance compared with regular hard drives and can handle RAID configurations
The new drive doesn't support encryption, and its performance isn't the best among similarly priced SSDs
At launch, the new Intel SSD 730 Series makes a very good internal drive choice for your computer, but it'll become a better value when its street price drops below the current suggested retail price....
Fiveyear warranty, 70GB write/day, fast enough, Intel reliability.
Too expensive, not the fastest, consumes a lot of power
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Published: 2014-07-24, Author: Joel , review by: pcmag.com
Abstract: 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 c...
High-end price, though not the very highest-end performance, Thirsty power consumption for an SSD
Desktop-PC users who prioritize long-term reliability and good speed over value pricing should consider Intel's latest consumer SSD; those seeking the least possible power consumption or the absolute most performance for the money can find more enticing ...
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Published: 2014-05-05, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
As we saw when we took a peek inside the Intel 730 series 480GB drive, there was 528GB (1GB byte = 1,000,000,000 bytes) of raw NAND on board but when formatted in Windows we find ourselves with 446GiB (1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes). The difference being the...
Published: 2014-04-13, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
great performance, excellent power consumption
price
Intel made an excellent SSD, based on its own controller and NAND flash modules. The performance and the power consumption are as claimed, but the price is too high comparing to other drives with the same capabilities.PROsCONs- great performance- excellen...
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Published: 2014-04-07, Author: Michael , review by: ubergizmo.com
Going through the specifications alone already gave me the assumption that the product focuses around reliability and consistency.Reliability70 GB host write a day.20 mn NAND, Data Center gradePower Loss ProtectionLife expectancy is rated at 2 million com...
We are pleased to welcome the new Intel 730 SSD which features Intel’s third-generation controller and is targeted at enthusiasts. It is an indication of Intel’s intention to stay on the top-end SSD market after its position has been weakened by the m...
