Review on 💾 Intel 520 Series SSDSC2CW240A3K5 Reseller Kit: 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive by Teambringit Truitt

On Thanksgiving I decided to upgrade my desktop from Windows 7 Pro to 8 Pro. When I finished the upgrade, I noticed my 74GB WD Raptor was down to 8GB. The day I needed the HDD I went to Best Buy to buy a 300GB Raptor and they were only available online so I bought a 180GB Intel SSD and cloned the old Raptor with an Apricorn HDD Upgrade Kit SATA Wire for Laptops ASW-USB-25. Note that this kit (NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH TO CLONE A FULL SIZE HARD DISK, but will clone a full size computer hard drive to SSD via USB). After a 40 minute clone I removed the Raptor and installed a newly cloned Intel SSD. Before I removed the Raptor, I calculated the boot password in Windows 8. The Raptor did it in 58 seconds. I installed the SSD, turned on the computer and after 8 seconds I was on the password screen. I liked this drive so much that I bought a 480GB Revain drive and another 240GB. I have a really hot HP DV7 laptop with 16 gigabytes of RAM and an 8 core i7 processor. I cloned an HP drive on an Intel 480 and oh my god how wonderfully this Intel product works with Intel products in an HP laptop. These drives are reliable and I highly recommend them. I also bought a Crucial M4 here at Revain and I like it too, but I think Intel is worth the extra money over Crucial for the durability. All of these 6 inch drives are fast, but I like Intel's reliability more than any other drive. If your computer has a Sata III controller, downloading the Intel SSD Toolkit will work fine on these drives. My desktop is an old AMD Athalon 6000 Dueling Core, so all Intel Toolbox functions don't work due to the SATA 2 controller. However, SSD made the old desktop 12x faster than it was and more fun to play. Hope this helps you all. By the way, after installing the SSD, be sure to disable the defragmenter in Windows by double-clicking My Computer, right-clicking the C: drive, clicking Properties, then clicking the Tools tab, clicking "Defragment Now " click and when this window pops up, go to Disk Defragmentation Plan and turn off disk defragmentation. Defragmenting an SSD is bad for a drive as it shortens its lifespan and each manufacturer has their own software to optimize their drives. Although all the functions in the Intel toolbox don't work on my desktop, the optimize function works and this is how you defrag these drives. If you have a newer computer like my laptop with all Intel features, this drive is a must have. Also, if the drive fails, you're left with an old, fully bootable hard drive. Knowing this, I bought Mini Tool Pro Partition Wizard online and flawlessly deleted HP recovery partition and extended entire C drive; Partition the full capacity of a 480GB SSD without damaging system files or the boot record. Have fun because this disc flies low and very, very fast! UPDATE Today I tested my drive at 491.80 MB/s read and 287.07 MB/s write, overall score 713. Very fast and high score.