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Intel 320 Series SSD
9.1 out of 10

Intel 320 Series SSD

Great Deal: $83.24

Reviews and Problems with Intel 320 Series SSD

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Overall 4
4.0

User Review

striker67, NCIX.com
5 December 2012
  • Summary: Had this drive for a year and two weeks when without warning it gave out and became unbootable. Intel is going to replace it, but a word to the wise...always do a backup.
  • Pros: Fast, quiet
  • Cons: Unreliable
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Overall 4
4.0

Disappointing product, excellent service

John, Newegg
30 August 2012
  • Pros: Drive made my wife's laptop much faster. The OS loaded in the blink of an eye, and Photoshop and other apps were equally quick.
  • Cons: Drive was purchased on 11/25/11. That drive failed with the 8MB bug in the middle of March, and a replacement was issued (with a $25 cross-ship fee). That drive then f...
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Overall 4
4.0

Intel 8MB Brick

Newegg
5 August 2012
  • Pros: Excellent warrenty period.
  • Cons: Failed after half a year due to the 8MB brick bug that the Series 320 drives exhibit.
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Overall 4
4.0

Failed after 11 months

Sluggo, Newegg
13 July 2012
  • Summary: Great! I lost 11 months of Software installs and Bookmarks! (And yes I am an idiot for only backing up some of the files on my "C" drive during that period.
  • Pros: Fast when it worked!
  • Cons: Failed after 11 months. The 320 series of intel drives can BRICK during abrupt down powers. Mine did and it is now an 8 meg drive according to Windows. (This is the tr...
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Overall 4
4.0

Died in less than a month

Mikey, Amazon
24 March 2012
  • Summary: It worked great when it worked. Fast boots, quicker shut down. Programs loaded faster than ever. Then, while ripping a CD, it died.
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Overall 4
4.0

Fast but doesn't always work right

KeraptisBlah, Newegg
16 February 2012
  • Pros: Definitely noticeably faster than magnetic storage. 160GB is enough storage that I haven't really had to make any sacrifices, holds the OS and quite a few games withou...
  • Cons: I got this to put into my old Core 2 Duo based system with an nForce 4 chipset. Funny story - it turns out it doesn't work with nForce 4 (and several other nvidia chip...
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Overall 4
4.0

OK

Ivan, Amazon
29 December 2011
  • Summary: Shipping was fine and rebate seems to be progressing nicely. To be honest I expected more of a speed increase.
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Overall 4
4.0

died after 2 months

Newegg
20 December 2011
  • Summary: computer would not start and when i finally pulled it out of the imac (no easy task) it showed up as a 8mb ssd instead of 160.
  • Pros: ssd
  • Cons: died after 2 months
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Overall 4
4.0

Glad I Didn't Spend Hours Doing A Clean Install...

Bob E, Newegg
18 December 2011
  • Pros: Intel Series 320 160 GB SSD, much quicker than HDD, < $1 per GB during recent sale (12/2011)
  • Cons: Acronis migration software failed to complete reboot after apparently successful migration. Rebooting (rather than closing down, waiting a minute, then starting up) re...
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Overall 4
4.0

Fast but not reliable

RAPHBERTI, Newegg
19 October 2011
  • Summary: After not even 3 months IT DIES AND I LOST ALL THE DATAS. At the company, we owned more than 30 classic disks and i just got one issue with one of them after 4 years.
  • Pros: Impressive improvement for my laptop.
  • Cons: I don't see any improvement of battery life (you see one if you don,t use the disk like when you surf on internet or type in word)
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