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You can consider yourself very lucky if you bought an SSD last year. Since September 2016 we have been warning you about a possible price increase and nowadays the price of SSDs is at least a quarter more than we were used to. Which SSD should you purchas...
You can consider yourself lucky if you purchased an SSD last year. Since then not a lot has happened when it comes to the performance, while the prices have gone up. However, using a hard drive as boot disk is not necessary at all - there are more than en...
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IDGMeet the next great budget SSD. Intel's 545s is an affordable yet reasonably fast SSD that finally demotes Samsung's EVO from the top spot in the consumer space. At $180 for 512GB, the 545s offers all the capacity and cost advantages of TLC NAND plus t...
Intel's 545s is the first TLC SSD we can recommend to consumers without shouting our standard caveat—“Unless of course, you find a similarly-priced MLC drive,” which you quite often can. That warning is due to TLC's slower sustained write speeds with larg...
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IDGMeet the next great budget SSD. Intel's 545s is an affordable yet reasonably fast SSD that finally demotes Samsung's EVO from the top spot in the consumer space. At $180 for 512GB, the 545s offers all the capacity and cost advantages of TLC NAND plus t...
Intel's 545s is the first TLC SSD we can recommend to consumers without shouting our standard caveat—“Unless of course, you find a similarly-priced MLC drive,” which you quite often can. That warning is due to TLC's slower sustained write speeds with larg...
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This year is going to be all about 64-layer 3D TLC flash. Intel, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, and Toshiba are all set to start shipping 64-layer 3D flash products. 64-layer 3D TLC flash promises higher density, better performance, lower power consumption and...
Even though the Intel SSD 5 545s doesn't show us the true potential of Intel's second generation 64-layer 3D flash, it does give us a taste of what is to come; and it tastes good. The Intel SSD 5 545s is one of the best performing SATA SSDs we've ever tes...
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Intel has a slew of new products planned that demonstrate the power of new memory technologies. The 545s is the first consumer model with new 64-layer NAND. The 545s targets the mainstream category where SATA still dominates the landscape. Intel's new sec...
Intel reliability, A performance increase for the mainstream series, Intel's SSD Toolbox...
Intel pricing, Slower than the 850 EVO, Inconsistent performance...
The Intel 545s moves this series a step further, but it sits in the shadow of the 600p. It's still not a true 850 EVO competitor when it comes to performance, but Intel is getting closer with the mainstream 5-Series.Review-MOREBest SSDsMOREHow We Test...
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Intel announced their 545s series SSD last month and it's been making plenty of rounds on Windows. Curious about the Linux performance, I picked up the Intel 545s 512GB SATA 3.0 SSD for benchmarking on Linux.The Intel 545s SSD offers 64-layer Intel 3D TLC...
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Meet the next great budget SSD. Intel's 545s is an affordable yet reasonably fast SSD that finally demotes Samsung's EVO from the top spot in the consumer space. At $180 for 512GB, the 545s offers all the capacity and cost advantages of TLC NAND plus the...
Very affordable, Doesn't slow down writing large data sets, as most TLC SSDs do, Slender, attractive 7mm profile, 5-year warranty and high write rating...
Not quite as fast overall as an MLC SSD...
Intel's 545s is the first TLC SSD we can recommend to consumers without shouting our standard caveat—“Unless of course, you find a similarly-priced MLC drive,” which you quite often can. That warning is due to TLC's slower sustained write speeds with larg...
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Much of the current excitement in the consumer storage space involves blazing-fast NVMe solid state drives, but there are still hundreds of millions (if not billions) of systems packing SATA hard drives that would benefit greatly from an SSD upgrade. As...
Affordable Pricing, High Endurance, Strong Performance, 5-Year Warranty...
Lightweight, thin enclosure, Only One Capacity (512GB) Currently Available...
Intel SSD 545s Series - Find Them At AmazonSATA-based solid state drives may not be as exciting as bleeding-edge PCIe NVMe-based offerings that boast multi-gigabyte per second transfers, but they remain one of the most effective upgrades available for the...
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This is the Intel SSD5 545s SATA 3 SSD and it is the subject of today's report. It is the second such example containing the newest 64-layer 3D NAND flash memory we have tested, our review of the Toshiba 1TB XG5 NVMe SSD published just a few days back. Th...
Intel SSD5 545s SATA 3 SSD Review (512GB)Les Tokar June 29, 2017 Leave a commentSharetweetIt was some time ago that even the mention of TLC NAND flash memory could draw forum confrontations so active that they would inflame contributors, most threads cont...
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Today Intel is launching a new line of client SSDs - the SSD 545S Series. These are simple, 2.5" SATA parts that aim to offer good performance at an economical price point. Low-cost SSDs is not typically Intel's strong suit, mainly because they are extrem...
Among the best performance, we've seen out of a SATA SSD, Very competitive introductory cost (for an Intel SSD)...
All capacities not yet available...
I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the Intel 545S 512GB SSD. What initially looked to be just another client SSD turned in some very impressive figures in our test suite, beating out the Samsung 850 EVO in many tests and nearly surpassing In...
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Intel has a slew of new products planned that demonstrate the power of new memory technologies. The 545s is the first consumer model with new 64-layer NAND. The 545s targets the mainstream category where SATA still dominates the landscape. Intel's new sec...
Intel reliability, A performance increase for the mainstream series, Intel's SSD Toolbox...
Intel pricing, Slower than the 850 EVO, Inconsistent performance...
The Intel 545s moves this series a step further, but it sits in the shadow of the 600p. It's still not a true 850 EVO competitor when it comes to performance, but Intel is getting closer with the mainstream 5-Series. Review - MORE: Best SSDs...
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If Samsung is the 800-pound gorilla of the solid-state-drive (SSD) world, Intel rates as at least a 400-pounder—a midsize simian. The company is better known as a chip giant, to be sure, but it has a big footprint in SSDs, too, and it's back in the game w...
Robust endurance rating, Five-year warranty, Very good overall performance, Solid software package...
Should be a tad less expensive, Sluggish QD32 read performance...
A sparkling entry-level SSD, the SSD 545s Series leverages new 64-layer TLC flash memory to deliver solid performance and above-average endurance ratings at a slight premium over competing drives. Read More...
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Intel's latest client SSD featuring its new 64-Layer, TLC, Intel 3D NAND, is the 545S Series. The first version available, and the subject of this review, is the 2.5” form factor with 512GB capacity. Intel did state that it would be releasing more capacit...
Low starting price, Strong consumer real-world performance...
Poor synthetic performance, Unstable firmware that causes SSD and attached system to lock under certain repeatable conditions...
The Intel 545S will make a good HDD replacement for most consumers, once its firmware bug is patched...
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Intel has a number of exciting storage products launching in 2017 and today just happens to be the day they launch the Intel SSD 545s series that will be added to the SATA III-based SSD product line. This is Intel's first client SSD featuring 64-layer Int...
If you are looking to replace an aging hard drive (HDD) or are looking to build a new system and need a mainstream value priced SATA III SSD the Intel SSD 545s 512GB has solid performance. With sequential performance up to 550 MB/s Read and 500 MB/s you a...
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Today Intel is introducing their SSD 545s, the first product with their new 64-layer 3D NAND flash memory and, in a move that gives Intel a little bit of bragging rights, the first SSD on the market to use 64-layer 3D NAND from any manufacturer.The Intel...
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MEET THE NEXT great budget SSD. Intel's 545s is an affordable yet reasonably fast SSD that finally demotes Samsung's EVO from the top spot in the consumer space. The 545s offers all the capacity and cost advantages of TLC NAND plus the sustained write spe...
Very affordable • Doesn't slow down writing large data sets, as most TLC SSDs do • Slender, attractive 7mm profile • 5-year warranty and high write rating...
Not quite as fast overall as an MLC SSD...
Intel's 545s is the first TLC SSD we can recommend to consumers without shouting our standard caveat—“Unless of course, you find a similarly-priced MLC drive,” which you quite often can. That warning is due to TLC's slower sustained write speeds with larg...
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