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.
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1789 Reviews
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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 series 730 SSD positions itself in a massively saturated market. Now, all SSDs in this class win and lose a little from each other in respective benchmarks, overall it remains to be a lot of the same. Especially once you house that SSD into you...
When we first heard about Intel combining their Enterprise arm with the desktop brigade we were intrigued, albeit slightly cautious. After all, it's not as if most SSDs are particularly slow or prone to breaking. Then news broke that the controller was a...
Published: 2014-03-04, Author: Kristian , review by: anandtech.com
It's great to see that Intel has not forgotten the enthusiast market. While the SSD 520 and SSD 530 weren't bad SSDs, they didn't exactly fill the shoes of X-25M—they were just another batch of SandForce drives, with more generally better validation. With...
Strong Performer, Proven Technology, 5 Year Warranty
Not Available Yet, Enthusiast Class Pricing
The Intel SSD 730 Series Solid State DriveWe don't have final street pricing for the Intel SSD 730 series just yet, but we expect it to be priced along with the upper echelon of consumer-targeted, enthusiast-class solid state drives when it hits store she...
Does well in gaming workloads, Excellent engineering of the drive, Five-year warranty, 2 million hour MTBF
Performance doesn't live up to price premium, Only offered in two capacities, Heavy power consumption
The Intel SSD 730 line is designed as an enthusiast-class SSD to take on intensive workloads and applications. The drive interfaces over SATA 6Gb/s, utilizes 20nm NAND, duty-optimized firmware and ships both 2.5" slim form factors at a 7mm height. Add...
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Published: 2014-02-27, Author: Chris , review by: technologyx.com
The Intel SSD 730 Series provides users with a high quality drive that can achieve excellent performance and has the endurance to last for many years. All of which is accompanied by an excellent price point, which makes this drive well deserving of the Te...
Excellent performance, especially IOPS at low QD, Data Center pedigree and reliability, Data Center grade power loss protection, Good cost/GB (se below),
High power draw and corresponding high temps may be an issue for some
Intel has a track record of overlapping parts among their consumer and enterprise lines. They did it with the X25-E / X25-M, with the SSD 710 / SSD 320, and now they've repeated that trend with the DC S3500 and SSD 730. The big difference this time ar...
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Published: 2014-02-27, Author: Christopher , review by: tomshardware.com
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...
We've waded through a lot of performance data, and we'll indulge a couple more graphs before weighing in with our final verdict. The following scatter plots use an overall performance score, which we derived by comparing each drive's performance to a com...
