INTEL 520 Series 120GB 2.5 Reseller

I bought the drive to put in my Mac mini '12. It was quite an effort to get it in there, but it was so worth it. I love the warranty and Intel's legendary reliability so I'm happy with my choice. I could have saved a bit of money and gotten another drive but so far I can't complain.A few notes for Mac users:If you're going to install in a Mac that has 10.8.2 on it and your goal is *NOT* to make a Fusion Drive (if you already have everything on your HDD and you want to manually manage your OS / App SSD usage for instance) when booting into recovery Apple more or less *forces* you to make a Fusion Drive. There are guides to prevent this from happening and the Internet is your friend when it comes to research. I was lucky and knew an SSD was on the way so I didn't have anything on the HDD I needed to keep, so I just went ahead and erased the drive and now have a shiny new Fusion Drive. Always back up your stuff if you're adding a HD anyway in case you lose anything because of a forced format. Fusion Drive works extremely well, by the way. Another thing is TRIM is not enabled by default with Mac. You need to find a third party enabler or do it manually through the Terminal. I've dabbled in *nix quite a bit so I was comfortable with the Terminal method, but I know most won't.I personally get reads well in excess of 450 MB/s. This thing BLAZES. The first time I booted the mini I knew it would be fast but it's... like.... ~10 seconds fast. Holy nuggets.Also, obviously, my VirtualBox images are insanely fast. Windows XP never even shows the blue three squares that go from left to right it just blanks for a second and boom desktop. SO AMAZING.In short, I love this drive, and it's amazing.

It's been almost one week past after i bought this ssd, and unfortunately it freezes almost every time i turn on my computer. I use a 2009 Macbook Pro, and i have the latest firmware but still doesn't prevent to freeze my computer.Right now, i really can't decide whether i should return it or keep it, i think i'm going to wait little bit more, maybe another firmware might fix the issue.besides this issue, it's really fast. I can turn on my computer under 20 secs but once it freezes, it takes 20-30 seconds until i can use the computer back.I'll update my short review in a couple of weeks...short update: while i was writing this, it froze again, what an ironic product :)---------Update as of 4/7/12: unfortunately i returned the item back to amazon. as i said, it's really fast when it works properly.after i realized freezing issues, i read a lot about this particular ssd, and i figured out that my mbp and this model doesn't seems to "fit" each other.the freezing issue has something to do with efi firmware 1.7, if you downgrade to 1.6 most of the people says "freezing is completely gone". and thanks to A. Goodman for the link, it was really helpful to determine the issue.@Murat: hocam burada turkce yazismak pek uygun dusmez, bana bir sekilde ulasin, daha fazla yardimci olmaya calisirim.

I bought this SSD to replace my old HDD on my MacBook. After trying every possible solutions ( installing Lion, Snow Leopard, replacing cable, verifying disk, enabling Trim,...) my computer still stops for 5-60 seconds every 3-5 minutes. I looked for the problem on google, and there are many people having the same problem. It was discussed in Intel's forum, that the problem was the incompatibility between Nvidia chip, which is very old and used in a lot of MacBook, and the SSD. Other companies have solved this problem with their SSDs, however, Intel hasn't done anything. There's no way to fix this problem if you already buy the SSD. I bought this more expensive SSD because I read good things about Intel, but after this purchase, I'm very cautious about Intel's product. It has taken me 2 days, and my computer is still not working well. If I bought the OCZ's SSD, however, I would have had a nice computer after 15' of installment.

As far as read speeds, everything is pretty fantastic. Benchmarking reaches about 470MB/s. Windows boots so fast that the Windows logo doesn't even get to finish forming before the next screen and the Windows startup sound is cut short as the computer blazes through load screens. Programs load very fast even upon first time runs...like they were already loaded into memory and then some.But when I used CrystalDiskBenchmark, my write speed was only about 80MB/s. Sure enough, I tried copying a large folder from one area of the drive to the other and Win 7 showed a consistent write speed of about 80MB/s. I called tech support which is of course out of the country (Costa Rica) and unable to do anything but read from a script. They told me I needed to use a benchmarking tool that uses compressible data. So I did, and of course the MAX write speed on one out of a dozen tests that were performed reached about 500MB/s write speed. That's cool and all, but obviously that's not the type of data being used by Win 7 for normal tasks, so why is that data used to advertise Intel's write speeds? Oh, because it's like 6X what the drive will actually be performing at in your computer. I thought this was pretty shady, and since I actually do copy large files fairly often, I had to take off two stars for poor performance and really useless tech support.TECH SUPPORT + UPDATE: They are so useless that they didn't even suggest I update my SATA controller by downloading and installing the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver. This is different than the drive's firmware. This seems to have increased my write speeds to hovering right about 100MB/s. Still about 400MB/s under what the box claims I should expect. Oh well, I guess.