Buy Intel 320 Series 160 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive Retail Box

Intel SSDSA2CW160G3B5

This is my first SSD drive. Boy does it make a difference compared to a standard notebook 7200rpm mechanical drive. Weight wise, it's about the same. Less power consumption, better performance. I can't speak for reliability just yet, but this worked without a hitch.The drive comes in a height of 9.5mm, however my notebook a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 only accepts 7mm drives. The Intel 320 SSD series uses a black spacer. The spacer has to be removed in order for the drive to fit in my notebook. To remove the space you must remove the screws, remove the plastic spacer, and find some hard drive screws. Even though the spacer can be ... Intel Solid-State Drives just got better The next generation Intel SSD 320 Series offers built-in data protection features, better performance, larger capacities and more value for your money. Couple that performance with random writes of 21,000 IOPS and sequential writes of 165MB/s to unleash your system. Random read performance of 39,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and sequential read performance of 270 megabytes per second (MB/s) ... »» Read more...

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