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Intel

®

 Solid-State Drive 520 Series

February 2012

Product Specification

Order Number: 325968-001US

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This document describes the specifications and capabilities of the Intel

®

 Solid-State 

Drive 520 Series (Intel

®

 SSD 520 Series)

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The Intel SSD 520 Series delivers leading performance for Serial Advanced Technology 

Attachment (SATA)-based computers in capacities ranging up to 480 GB.

By combining Intel's leading 25nm NAND flash memory technology with SATA 6Gb/s 

interface support, the Intel SSD 520 Series delivers sequential read speeds of up to 

550 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s.

The industry-standard 2.5-inch form factor enables interchangeability with existing 

hard disk drives (HDDs) and native SATA HDD drop-in replacement with the enhanced 

performance, reliability, and ruggedness offered by an SSD.

As compared to standard SATA HDDs, Intel SSD 520 Series offers these key features:

• High I/O and throughput performance
• Increased system responsiveness
• High reliability
• Enhanced ruggedness 

The Intel SSD 520 Series also offers additional key features such as:

• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit Encryption

AES 256-bit encryption is an industry standard in data security, providing a 

hardware-based mechanism for encryption and decryption of user data. Utilizing a 

256-bit encryption key, AES encryption — when combined with an ATA drive 

password — helps protect user data.

• End-to-End Data Protection

End-to-end data protection helps protect data from being corrupted across the data 

path by using cyclic redundancy check (CRC), parity, and error correction code 

(ECC) checks in the data path from the host interface to the NAND, and back.

• Data Compression

Data compression helps improve performance and endurance by automatically 

compressing information sent to the SSD so that less data has to be processed and 

stored on the NAND. The amount of data that can be compressed depends on the 

type of data.

1. The Intel SSD 520 Series is currently not validated for data center usage.