Speaking of Intel, everyone except their indispensable CPU, the SSDs they have manufactured in recent years are also performance Zhuoqun, sought after by fans known as "faith". However, Intel's previous SSDs were mostly aimed at enterprise users' products and a small number of high-end civilian models. Both the performance and the selling price were always high.
At the beginning of this year, Intel announced a new SSD product line, which is the protagonist of the 540S series today. Intel switched to the highly cost-effective 16nm TLC chip and the new high-performance master HuiRong SMI2256 on this family-friendly series, achieving a perfect balance of capacity, performance, and price. Today Xiao Bian brings you a detailed review of the dismantling of this SSD. Interested students can look at it.
Clean blue and white packing superb workmanship
Although not a high-end flagship product, Intel still provides sufficient information on packaging. The main colors of blue and white highlight the range of Intel's children. The detailed barcode information on the back can directly trace the production information of this SSD.
On the back of the package is also marked the 540S series of product positioning and five-year warranty commitments, but also shows the specifications of its 2.5-inch, 7mm, SATA 3 interface.
Open the package, there is only one manual and a pressure-proof cardboard box inside, and the hard disk body is inside.
The front Intel logo is still prominently marked the origin of this piece of disc, superb slightly alloy shell can play a good cooling and shielding effect.
The back of the back sheet is made of aluminum alloy material, and the stickers are marked with detailed information as well as traceable two-dimensional codes.
The standard SATA 3 interface supports a maximum read/write speed of 6 Gb/s. This is the limit of the performance of the SATA interface SSD.
TLC particles + high-performance master Intel also have to catch the popular
Unscrew the four screws on the front to disassemble the platter and see the internal motherboard (If you tear off the Intel friable sticker in the upper right corner, you will lose the warranty. Under normal circumstances, Xiao Bian recommends not to open it). The chip it uses is intuitively presented. Before us.
We can see that the 240G version of the 540S has only one chip on one side, and the other side has left some soldered particles in place.
Remove the backplane, turn to the other side, all the chips are neatly arranged in front of the Xiaobian, 540s motherboard overall work is still very solid.
Storage particles come from SK Hynix, using 16nm process, 2D nand TLC structure can provide higher single particle capacity and better access speed.
The main control chip with the thermal silicone attached below is the SMI 2256 from Huirong. This high-performance chip is the first choice for a large number of performance-level SSDs. It can support advanced features such as disk cache and SLC mode. And its exclusive use of Silicon Motion's patented NANDXtend ECC technology not only improves data security, but also increases TLC SSD durability by more than three times.
Performance test is very good and reasonable
Before the performance testing session, Xiao Bian first put a parameter.
modelIntel 540s Series 240G SSD
Size 2.5 inches Capacity 240GB Interface type SATA 6GB/s Thickness 7mm Master SMI 2256 Flash SK-Hynix 16nm TLC CacheSLC cache particles
Official reading and writing to read: 560MB/sWrite: 480MB/s warranty for five years
In the actual test, we used a relatively stable test platform host, I7-4770K with Ying Rui Da M550's main disk is sufficient to allow it to play the best performance.
CrystalDiskInfo disk information
AS SSD Benchmark Performance Test
853 points, both random access and response speed are excellent, and the reading and writing speeds have basically reached the nominal value.
CrystalDiskMark Performance Test
The more rigorous and scientific CrystalDiskMark, the results also show that it is the strength of the top SATA interface SSD
ATTO DISK Benchmark Performance Test
This software score that can test read and write speeds based on different file sizes can express the speed in real applications. The performance of Kingston HyperX SAVAGE in this test exceeds the nominal value and is very stable. It can basically guarantee full speed operation when the single file data reaches 64KB or more.
In the PCMark 8 disk test, the actual copy application speed can also reach 194MB / s or more.
893GB free space after formatting
Random performance test
to sum up
Today's 540s series, as the protagonist, actually has enough explosions from the perspective of "Intel's TLC." Needless to say, everyone can understand the significance of this product - large capacity, low price, and high performance. , and has Intel's gold signboards and strict selection of workmanship. Bold choice of Hynix granules and Hui Rong's new master chip is also a major highlight. This guarantees performance while still controlling costs and achieving lower selling prices.
As for the price, Xiaobian's 240G version sold more than 500 really expensive, after all, five years of warranty commitment and comparable high-end performance base here. Xiao Bian put a Jingdong link here. As to whether or not to join the ranks of Intel’s beliefs, you will decide on your own pockets and needs.