Intel 335 Series 240GB SSD

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There is an Intel 335 Series 240GB SSD review posted at Legit Reviews today. Those of you in the market for a new SSD ought to give this review a look.

As we discussed in the outset of the article, there's not a lot that's changed from the 330/520 Series of drives except the move to smaller architecture 20nm NAND which helps make them more affordable. We know the smaller the architecture, the greater rate of errors that occur which must be dealt with by the controller so some firmware changes were likely incurred as well.
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Much more competitively priced than their 320 series. The smaller NAND could result in a higher error rate but we will not know conclusively until much longer into their life cycle.
 
Yay competition! Bring these SSD prices down! Having my first SSD in my HTPC makes it feel all nice and snappy! Waiting for these ~256GB drives to hit .50 a gig so I can put it into my aging (feeling at least) Ul30A.
 
Essentially the given physical capacity rating of a drive, 256GB in this case, is expressed in GB (1 GB equals 1 billion bytes) and the virtual capacity as reported by Windows and applications is expressed in GiB (1 GiB equals 1,073,741,824 bytes). So, if you do that conversion you're looking at ~238GB available but set another 7% aside for spare area and the user ends up with 223GB as reflected in the drive properties as shown in Windows.
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They seem to be confused about sizes.
 
Snowknight26 said:
They seem to be confused about sizes.
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legit reviews certainly is confused. It is ironic that they say others are confused in the sentence before the part you quoted.

For the record (and contrary to legit reviews statement quoted), Intel advertises the 335 as 240GB. Also, from the pictures the SSD appears to have 256GiB of flash on board. And the legit reviews screenshot shows that windows is reporting a capacity of 240,054,693,888 bytes.

So, of the 256GiB = 274877906944 bytes of flash, only 87.3% of it (about 240.05GB) is available for actual use.

Of the remaining ~13%, that could be half reserved-space and half RAISE, or all reserved-space (if Intel disabled RAISE; does Intel specify whether the 335 has RAISE?)
 
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