14 DAY TRIAL // Santa Clara, California-based CPU and solid-state storage product maker Intel has introduced the Solid-State Drive 335 series, which might have a bit of trouble getting by.
Intel makes a point of mentioning that the new 2.5-inch SSD, with its capacity of 240 GB, is made out of 20nm NAND Flash memory chips.
The company also reveals that the maximum reading speed is of 500 MB/s, while the writing speed can reach 450 MB/s.
And here is the beginning of our problem. These performance parameters are high, no question, but they are quite a bit below those of certain less expensive 240 GB drives, like the SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 (550 / 520 MB/s).
To elaborate, the former bears a price of $184 / 142-184 Euro ($210 / 162-210 Euro with added taxes), while the latter ships for $173 / 173 Euro.
On the other hand, SandForce-powered SSDs like SanDisk's, though they are described as very fast on paper, don't actually reach their top performance very easily.