Intel 510 Series 250 GB SATA Version 3 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive

The 510 s 250g mainstream solid state drive.

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As an engineer who remembers IBM's 30 inch platter hard disk drives, this new SSD from Intel's 34 nm line is simply amazing. The ability to emulate a mechanical hard disk drive is at the heart of this technology, but the reason it will sell is SPEED! Quiet, cold, and FAST. My Windows 7 Experience Index for disk performance went from 5.9 (HDD) to 7.5 (SSD). Boot times are twice as fast and windows just snap into place. When you click on a desktop Icon, it opens almost before you can take your finger away from the mouse button. This upgrade is by far the most impressive I've experienced in over thirty years of trying to improve computer speed. The only negative is the fact that the free cloning software couldn't handle Dell's Reserved and Recovery partitions and the computer would not boot. I was successful, however, in using ShadowProtect to Restore an Image to the new SSD. This new Intel SSD is the most FUN device I've ever put into a PC.