Intel 320 Series 160 GB SATA 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive Brown Box

Intel 320 Series 160GB SSD OEM box; Gen3, MLC, 2.5 form factor

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I bought this drive to replace a Kingston SSDNow V+100 96GB SSD. The drive was being used as my Windows 7 boot drive, but I decided to use it for a Mac instead, and buy this Intel for my Win7 drive.I'll post the Windows Experience Index scores that I've received from my various hard drive configurations for your reference. All scores are from Intel-based, quad-core desktops running Windows 7 64 bit.Hitachi 2.5" 5400 RPM 160GB (boot and storage): 5.3 WD Caviar Blue 640GB (boot and storage): 5.9 WD Caviar Green 2TB (boot and storage): 5.9 Kingston SSDNow V+100 96GB SSD(boot)/WD Caviar Green 2TB (storage): 7.0 Intel 320 Series 80GB SSD (boot)/WD Caviar Green 2TB (storage): 7.4 Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD (boot)/Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB (storage): 7.9 (2)Intel 320 Series 80 GB SSDs in RAID 0 (boot)/(2) WD Caviar Green 3TB total (storage): 7.9The Intel drive thoroughly outperforms the Kingston drive, and is actually a tad cheaper. The PC runs noticeably faster with the Intel drive, and I'm very pleased.Update: The drive is still running strong (in spite of having been run almost every single second of the last 7 months or so that I've owned it).I decided to upgrade the PC that this drive was in, and since I wanted a faster SSD, and these have become fairly cheap... I bought a second matching drive to run in RAID 0.With two Intel 320 series 80gb SSDs running in RAID 0 (striped) on Windows 7 64 bit... I got a 7.9 in the WEI and absolutely stunning performance (matched with an Intel Core i7-2600, an Intel DZ68DB motherboard, and 16GB DDR3 RAM). I also have a 7.9 WEI on my Samsung 830 Series 128GB SSD in my other desktop.So the RAID 0 setup may not be the best bang-for-the-buck OS drive, but it was certainly a good choice since I already owned one.