Testseek.com 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.
Users
(93%)
1789 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Excellent performance
Especially IOPS at low QD
Data Center pedigree and reliability
Data Center grade power loss protection
Good cost/GB (se below)
Does well in gaming workloads
Excellent engineering of the drive
Five-year warranty
2 million hour MTBF
Strong 5-year warranty
Enterprise-class controller
7mm height
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
Consistently speedy performance
Enterprise-class durability
Strong Performer
Proven Technology
5 Year Warranty
Fiveyear warranty
70GB write/day
Fast enough
Intel reliability.
Great performance
Excellent power consumption
The editors didn't like
High power draw and corresponding high temps may be an issue for some
Performance doesn't live up to price premium
Only offered in two capacities
Heavy power consumption
Only mid-range performance
Top-shelf price tag
The new drive doesn't support encryption
And its performance isn't the best among similarly priced SSDs
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
