Intel 320 Series SSD 300 GB Review

Name: Intel 320 Series SSD 300 GB
Brand: Intel

on Oct 14th, 2011,

in SSD.

Manufacturer: Intel

Test Setup

Test System
CPU:	Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.3 GHz (Sandy Bridge, 6192 KB Cache)
Motherboard:	ASUS P8H67-M EVO Intel H67
Memory:	2x 2048 MB Crucial Ballistix Finned DDR3 @ 1333 MHz 6-6-6-18
Graphics:	Intel Integrated
Software:	Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1
Drivers:	SATA: Microsoft AHCI Display: Intel 15.21.13

After initial configuration and installation we created a disk image that will be used to test every drive.
Automated updates were disabled for all programs. This ensures that for every review each drive will get the same starting point without possible pollution from previous testing.
Our disk image consumes around 25 GB on disk, we resized the partition to fill all available space on the drive.
Partitions were checked to be aligned.
In order to minimize random variation, each of the performance tests is run ten times, with reboots in between tests to minimize the impact of disk cache.
We used the average of the ten runs as final score.
All application benchmarks run the actual application and do not replay any disk traces.

Dec 23rd, 2024 09:17 EST change timezone