Testseek.com have collected 140 expert reviews of the Intel 2.5 inch 510 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 81%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel 2.5 inch 510 Series SATA600.
May 2011
(81%)
140 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(84%)
159 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Good throughput
Excellent build quality
Retains 34nm flash with higher write-cycles
Tried and true controller
But not from Intel
Very good performance over legacy and SATA 6.0Gbps connections
Strong Sequential Performance
Benefits From Intel's QC Labs
Strong performance
Particularly in sequential reads and writes. Supports 6Gbps SATA.
Silky smooth operation as a system drive (during the test period)
Excellent reading and writing performance
Good 4K random I/O performance
SATA 6Gbps support
Excellent multitasking potential
TRIM support under Windows 7
Lightning fast access t
Fast sequential reads and writes
Vaunted Intel longevity.
Outstanding performance
Supports TRIM
3 year warranty
Good amount of accessories included
Nice looking
Rugged metal case
The editors didn't like
IOPS performance
While decent
Doesn't hold a candle to previous (3Gb/sec) generations
Price (see below)
Slower in some areas than X25-M
Still a huge gap in speed compared to latest SandForce models
Random Reads / Writes
IOPS performance vs. Newer Drives
Slow random-access speeds compared with competing drives. Relatively expensive.
Slightly slow sequential writing performance by today's standards.
Intel's latest SSD has incredible file transfer performance in almost every situation, although it carries a massive price premium over conventional hard disks. It’s also unlikely that it will look quite so fast against SSDs from other manufacturers du...
Intel's 510 isn't a bad drive – in fact if you are just moving large files around it's a very good choice to go for – but the timing of its release hasn't done it any favours...
Any new Intel product arrives with huge expectations, and the company usually delivers on one of two fronts: price or performance. Yet, at £220, the 120GB Intel 510 Series SSD struggles to deliver on either. With a heavy focus on sequential throughput,...
After receiving an Intel SSD it is immediately obvious that this is a company who know how to look after their consumers. This starts with the decision to bundle all of the cables and screws required along with a drive bay convertor, items many manufac...
Let's start with OCZ's Vertex 3, rather than Intel's SSD 510. Although the Vertex 3 doesn't clean house in every discipline, it is most consistently toward the top of each workload.Intel's SSD 510 is almost bipolar in comparison. Rather than focus on a we...
TestbedBenchmarksThe figures that we garnered after running the ATTO disk benchmark reveal that the 510 Series is the fastest in terms of read speed. It was able to surpass two of the fastest SSDs that we had personally encountered from Patriot, the Pyro...
