Intel DC S3500 80GB SSD - Brand New $22 Shipped

[hippyhappo]

Intel SSD DC S3500 series SSDSC2BB080G401 80GB, 2.5in SATA III 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC | eBay

I picked up a few of these the last time this seller listed them. They're brand new / sealed in the little brown Intel box. Anyway, these are pretty decent for an OS / boot drive and you can't go wrong @ $22 shipped.

 

[johndoe123]

• Bandwidth:
  • Sequential Read: 340 MB/s
  • Sequential Write: 100 MB/s

Why so low?

 

[hippyhappo]

• Bandwidth:
  • Sequential Read: 340 MB/s
  • Sequential Write: 100 MB/s

Why so low?

It's an older SSD and it's only 80GB so it's not going to be the fastest thing out there. It's just a nice, cheap, reliable option for a server / hypervisor boot drive.

 

[T_Minus]

IT's 80gb that's why it's slow.

Can get 120gb for this price too, just not used keep an eye out they goo fast.

 

[newabc]

The item box's picture on ebay looks like a retail one. I bought a s3520 150gb on newegg.com last year. The boxes are similar.

The 80gb or 120gb, 150gb is also good for a firewall which don't need a fast read/write speed and a large space.

 

[kiteboarder]

Those drives really seem to increase in write speed as you go up in capacity. The 600 GB versions that I have are nearly nearly 500MB/s write.

 

[Fritz]

Looks like the seller bumped the price up to $25.

 

[hippyhappo]

Looks like the seller bumped the price up to $25.

Yeah, like 50 of them sold within a few hours of me posting this, so he probably figured they're too cheap. Still not a bad price though given that they are brand new.

 

[cheezehead]

Yeah, like 50 of them sold within a few hours of me posting this, so he probably figured they're too cheap. Still not a bad price though given that they are brand new.

STH effect...

 

[newabc]

Received mine.

Checked the SNs on the boxes on intel website(which are ISNs on the SSDs, too). Checked one of them with CrystalDiskInfo and only "power cycle count" is 3 and all other items relative to lifespan are 0. I think they are the retail version of S3500.

 

[DavidB]

@newabc used drives often have their SMART data cleared, so take the disk info with a grain of salt. Only way to really determine estimated life span is to fill it up a few times and check for sector relocations.

That being said, these drives are new and sealed so probably no worries in this case.