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What is an Intel® Solid-State Drive?Overview
New Intel® Solid-State Drives, a reliable alternative to traditional hard drives, offer breakthrough storage performance
Take your PC to a new level of responsiveness—including faster boot-up, application launch, and file loading—with new Intel® SSDs, and get the quality experience you expect from Intel® products.
With Intel SSDs you:
- Experience up to 56% faster¹ PC responsiveness compared to hard drives
- No moving parts, for higher reliability and longer life-span than traditional hard drives
- Extremely rugged—can withstand bumps and shocks without losing precious data
- Experience faster system boot up
- Save power so you can stay mobile longer (Laptop)
- No training required after install
Intel SSDs compared to traditional hard drives
Hard DrivesSolid-State Drives
Capacities |
Yes |
Yes |
No moving parts |
No |
Yes |
Life span |
No |
Yes |
Power consumption |
No |
Yes |
Boot up times |
No |
Yes |
¹ As measured by PCMark* Vantage*. Performance tests and ratings measured using a Toshiba* A305-S6916 laptop with 80 GB 2.5" Intel® X25-M SATA Solid-State Disk and 320GB Hitachi* SATA Hard Disk Drive. Tests reflect approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware, software, or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and performance of Intel products, visit
www.intel.com/performance