Intel 240GB SSD 530 Series: Irresistible Price & 5 Year Warranty!

Intel is probably the most reputable SSD drive on the market right now. I bought 2 of them to convert my sluggish desktops and breath new life into them. More than any other upgrade, going from conventional hard disk drives to SSD will give you the most performance gains. You will not regret this purchase!

SSD do have the well-known drawback of failing after extended writes. Newer write algorithms do balancing to ensure that no area of the drive disproportionately gets over-written to. In addition, unlike conventional hard drives, when SSD fails it, you will not be able to write to it, but should be able to read from it. So failures are generally more tolerable. Since these intel drives come with 5 year warranties, (a lifetime in computing years) you should have good assurance and piece of mind.

Installation from scratch was completely painless and went without a hitch.

5 stars. $160 on Amazon = must buy!