Intel 545s Series M.2 SSDSCKKW256G8X1 256 GB

Intel SSD

At the time of release in 2017, the Intel 545s was positioned as a mid-range product. However, after the gradual reduction in the cost of SSD on TLC NAND, this model gradually moved into the category of state employees. Now it is an excellent candidate for the role of a system drive in a home PC, work laptop or office computer with a small amount of daily disk operations.

Max speed

As the basis of the hardware platform of the drive, a 4-channel Silicon Motion SM2259 controller and proprietary 64-layer Intel 3D TLC NAND memory are used. This combination provides high read and write speeds — 550 and 500 MB / s, respectively. Together with fast data access time (85K write IOPS, 75K read IOPS), this allows you to raise the performance of the disk subsystem of any personal computer or laptop to a fairly high level.

Support for Intel Rapid Start and Smart Response technologies

Due to the fact that the Intel 545s was originally in the middle price segment, it got a few goodies that are not inherent in low-cost SSDs. For example, the drive supports Intel Rapid Start and Smart Response technologies. The first allows the disk to almost instantly wake up the computer from deep sleep, and the second improves the interaction of the disk array, allowing you to use the SSD as a cache for the HDD. Plus, Intel gives the disk an official five-year warranty against the standard three-year one.