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Fast, Rugged, Actual 25GB Capacity

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019

I wanted to replace an enterprise class disk drive in unsupported network hardware that would be rendered useless if the drive failed. I wanted to image the internal disk and replace it with an SSD that was guaranteed to be reliable. My choices were limited: I could opt for older technology SSD's that might fail with enough write cycles and weren't designed for the 24/7 warm environment in a network rack, or pay a premium for new technology SSD's that were faster and reliable. The Intel 545s was a great choice. It's a newer technology multilayer 3D nand, comes in a rugged metal package, and is less expensive than other choices in its class. Since I was making a bitwise copy of a physical hard drive, I needed 256GB, not 240GB, not 250GB, like so many others on the market. The Intel 545s series was a perfect fit for my criteria: New technology, reputation for reliability, full 256GB capacity, and reasonable price.

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rdagger

High DOA Rate

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019

I plugged the Intel SSD into a Dell with the intention of cloning the original drive. The computer would not boot. I then made the mistake of trying it on a different Dell computer. It froze at the boot screen. Whatever was wrong with drive also corrupted the computer’s original drive. After removing the Intel SSD, the computer would no longer boot. Fortunately, a Windows repair fixed the problem on the original drive.

I’ve upgrade about a dozen of our computers to Intel SSD’s. This is the 3rd DOA drive. However, we haven’t had any fail during use. There is a very noticeable performance boost over the original mechanical hard drives. The Intel data migration software makes it very easy to clone.

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Direwolf

Fast, Rugged, Actual 25GB Capacity

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019

Capacity: 256 GBVerified Purchase

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Joe

so far so good

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

fits and works just fine so far

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Great little SSD, works great in a Mac

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2019

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

I drop this baby in a MacBook Pro mid 2012 and it’s rocking.

OSX installed just fine.

I used the command line tool to enable Trim support.

Everything worked.
It’s a great little SSD.

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PCDuck

512 Gig 545s Intel ssd

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2018

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

First of all some computers will not see it. Disconnect all the hard drives except this one. Try to install windows on it. No upgrade. Stop the installation after a minute. If you are using this as a secondary hard drive you are good to go. However now you have 100 meg of system partition. Go to disk management and delete it.
Writing speed from ssd to this drive is about 200meg/sec but from regular 7200 rpm drive is 20meg/sec. Overall it's a very good drive. Don't forget to get 2.5" to 3.5" mounting kit.

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Duke Jackson

There's great value in Intel SSDs. I speak from experience.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

If you like my review, please give it a thumbs-up. I only write reviews to help fellow Amazon shoppers. I am not compensated for any products, (I buy them with my own money, like many of you) and I write what I experience in order to make Amazon Reviews better for us all.

With SSDs having half priced since 2015, you're getting an incredible value in this SSD. it's super easy to install and set up was a breeze using Intel's licensed Acronis transfer solution (you'll need a separate cable which you can buy on amazon for $10; USB3 to SATA).

I buy Intel SSDs because of Intel's superior warranty service. i've had SSDs die in the past and Intel replaced theirs with zero questions and paid the freight all the way.

Power/performance/warranty combined, you're not going to get a better deal or experience with any other brand SSD out there. i am loyal to Intel SSDs and proud to say so. my business runs on Intel SSDs and i wouldn't use any other SSD drive or manufacturer.

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rdagger

High DOA Rate

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

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Kindee Durnan

Intel = Perfection

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2018

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

I was having boot problems and wondered if my old Corsair Force 128GB SSD was starting to fail? It was installed in 2012, 6 years ago. I wanted to go with a brand that I could trust, so Intel it was. I used Intel's program for migrating my data from my Corsair SSD to this new Intel drive. It was a breeze. This SSD from Intel works just as well as my old Corsair drive. The nice thing is that I now have a lot more space, allowing me to install my Office, Adobe, Photo, and other programs on my native drive, which speeds everything up. I gave less for this Intel drive than what I gave for that Corsair drive 6 years ago. The only difference that I noticed was this Intel drive was slimmer than my Corsair (7 vs 9 mm) and while my Corsair came with a drive bay adapter, the Intel did not. Get an adapter if you don't have one already. I use mine in a desktop. Your laptop may already be set up to accept this size of drive.

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Lisa O.

Great product !

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2019

Capacity: 512 GBVerified Purchase

Great product! I’m so used to HDD drives that the speed of the SSD floored me. Have not had any problems thus far!

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Amazon Customer

Intel Is the Best

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019

Capacity: 256 GBVerified Purchase

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I upgraded my Latitude laptop running XP Pro with this SSD using a cloning device. Didn't need any adapter, spacer to install it. It fit perfectly and the LT ran like never before. I used another Intel SSD, 1 TB to upgrade a Dell Inspiron mini tower running Windows 10 also. I will use nothing but Intel SSDs from this vender.

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Ivaylo Kolev

I red the reviews that Crucial and Samsung SSD are better, but I chose this one because of the ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2018

Capacity: 256 GBVerified Purchase

It works much faster than I expected. I red the reviews that Crucial and Samsung SSD are better, but I chose this one because of the Intel migration software. I manage to migrate my OS in 3-4 hours. There were some issues but finally everything works just fine. I highly recommend it not only because of the Intel's support, but and because it's faster than my brand new Dell laptop equipped with Samsung SSD and using the same OS and processor as my desktop.

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