Comments on: Intel 520 240GB SSD Review (Round One) – Intel Releases Amazing SATA 3 SandForce Driven SSD

By: erm

erm — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:13:00 +0000

would be interested to see a review of the sandisk extreme ssd. it’s by far the cheapest sandforce powered ssd with toggle nand – buy.com has the 120gb for about $160 and 240gb for about $320. that’s a steal. storagereview reviewed it and were very impressed.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:51:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous.

Can you link your quote? Intel 520’s do, in fact, have data loss protection in the event of power loss. It is part of Intels ‘End To End Data Protection’

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-520-series.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:32:00 +0000

I’ve read that the 520s do not have capacitors, so if there is a power shut down (happened to me two nights ago) that the information on the hard drive is gone. Is this true?

By: Jediakasha

Jediakasha — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Fabulous article – I like the detail especially about the 16GBs being used by the firmware.

By: paul alcorn

paul alcorn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:14:00 +0000

This is an excellent article! Great work Les 🙂 no pressure for me on the followup lol 😉