Intel® SSD DC S3500 Series (400GB, 1.8in SATA 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC)
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02/27/2014
SummaryIntel has pushed out many SSDs over the years, and unlike many manufacturers, they have never stopped heavily pushing SSD in the enterprise. They did so with their very first push of the X25-M / X25-E, where they seemingly came out of nowhere and ju...
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10/08/2013
SummaryEven enthusiasts are unlikely to round up six identical SSDs and drop them on a Z87- or C226-based motherboard. But it's nice to know that Intel makes this possible. While there were a lot of folks who felt stifled by the fact that previous-gen platform c...
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08/13/2013
SummaryFor its target market the DC S3500 offers a solid value proposition with its bargain basement pricing (I found the 480GB listed on newegg.com for 649.99 USD). It offers a fully featured, power efficient Enterprise drive with strong and consistent performance, especially for read intensive applications...
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06/11/2013
SummaryIn our first high level look, Intel's SSD DC S3500 looks to be everything we loved about the S3700 but at a more affordable price point for enterprise customers who don't need insane amounts of write endurance. With SSDs in the enterprise there's this ten...
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06/11/2013
SummaryThe DC S3500 hints at what I think we might expect to see from Intel in terms of an all new consumer SSD. While it still packs some serious hardware, it is one step down from the DC S3700 it resides next to. The move from 25nm HET MLC to 20nm M...
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06/11/2013
SummaryThe 480GB Intel SSD DC S3500 series drive we featured here offered very good performance throughout out testing. Read performance was competitive with all of the other drives we tested in all but the IOMeter benchmarks. Write performance, however, whi...
Link to full reviewProsRead Performance, Power Loss Data Protection, 5 Year Warranty, Competitive Pricing
ConsWrite Performance Trailed Some Competing Drives
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06/11/2013
SummaryWith the release of the Intel SSD DC S3500, Intel is entering a sector that was once dominated by consumer drives masquerading as enterprise drives. These read intensive environments don't need high priced, high endurance NAND. They need to be read opti...
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