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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I've heard nothing but good things about the 5xx series Intel SSDs, in that the Sandforce they use is much better than the 2xx/3xx series (not to mention all the off-brand Sandforce drives).
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The controller Intel uses in the 520 is the same SF-2281 controller as other brands (it's not off-brand, Sandforce (actually LSI now) makes the controller chips, and OCZ, Kingston, Patriot et al use them).
Where Intel has it above the others is that they've taken a year to validate and to tweak/write their own firmware, so while the 520 performs very similarly to other SF-2281 drives (ETA: meaning it will have the same weakness to encrypted and other uncompressable data, and the benchmarks prove this out) it presumably is more reliable.