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Intel 520 Series 240GB (Raid 0 update) SSD Review

IOMeter is another open source synthetic benchmarking tool which is able to simulate the various loads placed on hard drive and solid state drive technology.

We use a custom Kitguru configuration for 4k random write and 4k random read, to measure performance.

IOPS performance from this drive is very impressive. RAID 0 scores increase significantly, to 108,008 for 4k write, and 82,556 for 4k read. Obviously there are many ways to run this test and other parameters may raise or lower the scores a little. For our particular configuration these are very strong results however.

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12 comments

  1. Id be happy if I could afford one of these, never mind two. nice performance. im off to cry in a corner.

  2. Work well in RAID 0, but £800 was more than my last system cost. still we can dream, right?

  3. These are amazing SSD drives provided by intel.

    Check it out on amazon!
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VCP9G6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=emjay2d-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006VCP9G6

  4. You missed a huge performance gain by not installing an intel rst version.
    rapid storage technology gives a boost to the low/mid size file transfer rates which really makes a windows based operating system fly.
    always only use the rst version from the boards download page along w/ being on the latest bios.
    one little glitch to know about; most times write back cache is disabled by default.
    open rst/click volume icon/toggle write back cache on/off/on.
    re-run the atto bench and look for the big performance gain.