Intel 320 Series 120 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive

 (57 customer reviews)

This is my first SSD, and I absolutely love it. Very fast boot up and shut-down;
incredibly fast program launch - even monsters like Photoshop: blam - they're on.

Since my system worked reasonably well before, I worried about every aspect
of this project. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why spend the $250, what if I have boot problems,
what if the performance increase is marginal or worse?). Incredibly the installation
was totally quick and flawless. Bravo, Intel! Now for some details.

I bought the retail kit ($10 to $25 more than the OEM version). The two cables
are handy (sata power and data), I used the bracket, and even the
tiny 3 inch CD with installation instructions was useful. Amazingly,
those instructions are not on Intel's website.) They worked flawlessly.

I installed it in my 2008 Intel desktop tower that runs Windows XP Pro
32-bit and that has an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 processor. This...Read more

First off let me give some info on my computer for those who are interested:

Computer: 2007 eMachines that originally came with Vista (which I upgraded to XP)
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition, SP3
Processor: Intel Pentium dual core CPU @2.00GHz
RAM: 2GB
Old HDD: Stock Western Digital 320GB that came with my computer, SATA 2.0 (3GB/s)
Partitions: 3 partitions in total, two are used for dual-booting XP and one was for random storage.

Getting a SSD for me has been an interesting experience, I cannot begin to tell you how many hours I put into researching drives and trying to answer all of my questions. Some of those questions remained unanswered and I had to figure them out on my own (which I will elaborate on).

I had a lot of questions going into this, of those questions here were some of my main concerns:

- How does the Intel Migration Software work with HDD's that have multiple partitions?
- Do I even...Read more

Extremely fast boot time, a world of difference from the Sata HD I replaced it with, even on an older MB. Bootup went from well over a minue to < 30sec. It's not SATA 3, but still super speedy.

It died at almost 2 months. Soo much for World-Class reliability! A bit pricey for the performance, obviously reliability is a concern.
Also, the Warranty replacement did not make me happy either, I have to either ship it to them or pay $25 for 2-day ground. Either way, paying extra for a defective product is not a joyous thing.

Would of given higher stars, but the experience so far with dependability and replacement is the full reason for current rating.