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
(76%)
119 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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1789 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 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....
Published: 2014-02-27, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
The Intel SSD 730 Seriess SSD family pulled a page from the enterprise DC S3500 and created a SSD to suite the enthusiast, media professional and Workstation environments. With RAID 0 performance above 1GB/s, over 130K IOPS, 70GB per day write endurance,...
It goes without saying that going into this review, we had some awesomely high expectations for Intel’s 730 series. After reading numerous glowing reviews of the 480GB version and taking into account the pedigree of past Intel SSDs, the 730 240GB shoul...
Abstract: While manufacturers have announced larger capacity SSDs (2TB and more), for storing a lot of files, a mechanical HDD is still a much more affordable option. This looks set to change in the future though, as SSD production volume increases lead to lower pr...
This drive from Intel represents their efforts in giving something for enthusiasts to salivate over, and the performance of the drive is not bad at all. Compared to some other SSDs, the performance of the 240Gb Intel 730-series proved slightly disappointi...
Abstract: Intel played a big role in kicking off the SSD phenomenon with its X25M series, launched back in 2009. Since then Intel has been relatively quite, but now, the giant is fighting back. The SSD 730 series is a consumer SSD with enterprise-class features. Th...
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....
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Published: 2014-02-27, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
Unlike the original enterprise to enthusiast product, Skulltrail, the Intel 730 Series 480GB didn't blow us away with more performance than we can handle. The truth is, 730 is more of a compromise product that offers enough performance to carry momentum,...
Abstract: We have mentioned many times in previous SSD reviews that the market for SSDs is extremely competitive and price-sensitive. And the only way to remain competitive is to own your NAND production facilities or intellectual property in the form of the SSD co...
