Intel SSD 530 (240GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on November 15, 2013 1:45 PM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- SSDs
- Intel
- Intel SSD 530
Performance vs. Transfer Size
ATTO is a useful tool for quickly benchmarking performance across various transfer sizes. You can get the complete data set in Bench. SandForce's read performance has never been top notch and the SSD 530 is no exception. Compared to the SSD 335, read speeds are better across all smaller IO sizes but as you can see the SSD 530 is beaten by most of today's SSDs. The story is similar with write performance, although differences are noticeably smaller. The SF-2281 is really starting to show its age because it used to dominate all ATTO benchmarks thanks to the use of highly compressible data but those times seem to be over.
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AnnonymousCoward - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link
I enjoyed the review, but why can't you have a single real world benchmark??? You compare CPUs based on the time it takes to encode/decode, and fps in games. That tells readers the quantified difference. Your SSD data tells the reader nothing about Windows startup time, file copy time, and program load time. This has been an overlook on Anandtech from Day 1. I've brought this up multiple times in these comments, but you guys somehow don't get it.dhisumdhisum - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link
Debroah, will you marry me? I don't work, I am a bum.dac7nco - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link
Greatest reply ever.Bullwinkle J Moose - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - link
Technically, that was a proposal...The reply has not yet been given
Tjalve - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link
I have actually don that kind of testing. But i use 20min idle time.http://www.nordichardware.se/SSD-Recensioner/svens...
The text is in swedish so use google translate to translate to english. But scroll down and qlik on the links.
But check the diffrence between test 6 and 7 in the graphs.
Tjalve - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link
I have actually don that kind of testing. But i use 20min idle time.http://www.nordichardware.se/SSD-Recensioner/svens...
The text is in swedish so use google translate to translate to english. But scroll down and qlik on the links.
But check the diffrence between test 6 and 7 in the graphs.
nicolaim - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link
MyDigitalSSD sells M.2 SSDs at retail, so saying M.2 SSDs are OEM-only is incorrect.mi1stormilst - Friday, December 6, 2013 - link
The Intel 530 is $169.99 on newegg today ... tack on the 10% discount code floating around (NAFSAVETENDEC6W) for newegg and you have a bargain at $155.98 shipped!!!PKR - Sunday, December 8, 2013 - link
With my Macbook pro Mid 2010, and Intel 530 240gb with DC12 firmware, I think this ssd is slow - I am only getting about 200 mbps write and 260 mbps read speed. Very disappointed, as I the reviews online pointed to speeds in the range of 500 mbps.I tried the installation two ways - one by cloning the system partition using carbon copy cloner, and another using a fresh install from super-drive and updating .. In both cases, speed didn't change.
If it matters, I have 4 partitions on the drive. The system partition is of size 100gb, with about 40gb free space after migrating my content.
Wolfpup - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
I switched from Intel to Micron/Crucial after Intel switched to Sandforce controllers...I'd still pick this over OTHER sandforce drives, but I'm still picking an M500 over this...