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Intel® Solid-State Drive 520 Series – Get Fast. Play Fierce.

Overview

Stay ahead of the competition when you level up to 6.0 gigabits per second (Gb/s) performance. Intel® Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) continue to evolve with the Intel SSD 500 Family. Available in a wide range of capacities, the Intel® Solid-State Drive 520 Series offers built-in data protection features and delivers exceptional performance over hard drives.

New level of performance

Built with compute-quality Intel 25 nanometer (nm) NAND Flash Memory, the Intel SSD 520 Series accelerates PC performance where it matters most. With random read performance up to 50,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS)1 and sequential read performance of up to 550 megabytes per second (MB/s),2 your PC will blaze through the most demanding applications and will handle intense multi-tasking needs. Couple that read performance with random writes up to 80,000 IOPS3 and sequential writes of 520 MB/s2 to unleash your applications. With the Intel SSD 520 Series, Intel continues to deliver solutions designed to satisfy the most demanding gamers, media creator and technology enthusiasts.4

Superior data protection features

The new Intel SSD 520 Series offers the best security features of any Intel SSD to date and comes preconfigured with Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) 256-bit encryption capabilities. In the event of theft or loss of your computer, you have the peace of mind that your personal data is secured by an advanced encryption technology. Additionally, the Intel SSD 520 Series contains “End-to-End Data Protection” ensuring integrity of stored data from the computer to the SSD and back.

Now that your work is safe, use the world-class performance of the Intel SSD 520 Series to dominate your gaming competition or to reach new levels of creativity and productivity. The choice is yours!

Technical Specifications

Capacity: 60/120/180/240/480 GB
Components:
— Intel® 25nm NAND Flash Memory
— Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
Form Factor: 2.5-inch
Thickness: 7 mm and 9.5 mm
— 7 mm: 120/180/240 GB
— 9.5 mm: 60/120/180/240/480 GB
Weight: Up to 78 grams
SATA 6Gb/s Bandwidth Performance1
(Iometer* Queue Depth 32)
— Sustained Sequential Read: Up to 550 MB/s
— Sustained Sequential Write: Up to 520 MB/s
Read and Write IOPS1
(Iometer Queue Depth 32)
— Random 4 KB Reads: Up to 50,000 IOPS
— Random 4 KB Writes: Up to 80,000 IOPS2
Latency (average sequential)
— Read: 80 μs (TYP)
— Write: 85 μs (TYP)
Data Compression
AES 256-bit Encryption
End-to-End Data Protection
Compatibility
— Intel® SSD Toolbox with Intel® SSD Optimizer
— Intel® Data Migration Software
— Intel® Rapid Storage Technology
— Intel® 6 Series Express Chipsets
(with SATA 6Gb/s)
— SATA Revision 3.0
— ACS-2
— SSD-enhanced SMART ATA feature set
— Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
command set
— Data Set Management Command
Trim attribute
Power Management
— 5 V SATA Supply Rail
— SATA Link Power Management (LPM)
Power
— Active (MobileMark* 2007 Workload):
850 mW (TYP)
— Idle: 600 mW (TYP)
Temperature
— Operating: 0o C to 70o C
— Non-Operating: -55o C to 95o C
Reliability
— Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER):
< 1 sector per 1016 bits read
— Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
1,200,000 hours
Shock (operating and non-operating):
1,500 G/0.5 msec
Vibration
— Operating: 2.17 GRMS (5-700 Hz)
— Non-operating: 3.13 GRMS (5-800 Hz)
Certifications and Declarations:
— UL*
— CE*
— C-Tick*
— BSMI*
— KCC*
— Microsoft* WHQL
— VCCI*
— SATA-IO*
Product Ecological Compliance
— RoHS*

1. Performance values vary by capacity.
2. Random 4 KB writes measured using out-of-box SSD.