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the Coolermaster Glaser 240 L CPU cooler delivers the convenience of an all-in-one and the performance of a custom water cooler click now to learn more the last time Intel made their own consumer grade SSD top to bottom including the controller firmware and NAND flash was back in 2008 yes the era of the x.25 m and its defendants that architecture was with us for almost two and a half years of product refreshes including a move to haylage and free manufacturing changes to the accompanying Ram cache and upgraded firmwares with encryption and trim support but until never dramatically updated the controller itself leaving it struggling along at the end of its lifecycle as a SATA 2 product amidst a sea of SATA 3 competitors average return okay but why so emotional Linus there are tons of good SSD options on the market well Intel SSDs have always been I'm holding this backwards on the expensive side for their performance but their reliability is legendary aside from being aware of the reputation they've built with their other products and their competitive warranty periods I've also had the pleasure of touring their Folsom campus where much of the SSD work is done and let me tell you when intel says validation they mean it they had SSDs that were many months from release being torture tested using equipment that smaller SSD manufacturers at the time that I talked to hadn't even seen before so while I don't actually use an intel SSD in my own desktop PC I do use one in my home server and I do use one in my wife's PC because let me tell you guys and the married ones of you can probably relate to this when it comes to your own you know boot drive dying it sucks but you're probably prepared when your wife's drive dies and she loses all her junk because she wasn't using the bleeping Nass like you told her to she will find a way to make it your fault and it really sucks and that is what keeps me excited about this drive reliability because frankly the performance is not earth-shattering at PAX Prime 2013 Intel was hinting at a user overclockable SSD with unheard-of performance and at the time I said that's insane I hope they just tuned the hardware to bring a competitive performance oriented drive to market but don't compromise data integrity and Intel predictable to a fault did just that a non text review which I'll link in the video description for your convenience covers the basis pretty well as far as performance goes the quick summary though is this the drive builds on the same DNA as the s 3500 and s 3700 which are both enterprise products and while peak performance isn't at the top of the charts the 730 s ability to consistently perform its best even when it's full or being hit with a lot of data over an extended period of time is top notch the extended summary is a bit more complicated and includes a longer series of consumer versus enterprise trade-offs first up intel is using the same controller and mlc h ET for both uses and is using the same combination of die screening and an increase in the drives page programming cycle to achieve up to six times better endurance than regular NLC meant that's where the five-year warranty comes from but for the consumer version they are also aggressively ramping up the clock speed of the controller by 50% and they increased the interface speed on the NAND flash as well next up we get robust power loss protection with a pair of capacitors that will allow the one gig of ram cache to dump its data to the flash but we are sacrificing full drive encryption and the normally low power that SSDs consume to the PC hardware gods so the 730 will keep your data safe as long as no one physically steals it which they probably won't since you won't be putting this drive in a laptop it actually consumes more power than a one terabyte tuned a half inch notebook hard drive and finally the drive delivers excellent write performance more important in an enterprise or workstation environment but legs behind in reads which are unfortunately more common in a consumers daily life so I guess the conclusion for this drive is this all those trade-offs are either making you groan and wonder why Intel even bothered putting a super-duper skull graphic and speed demon sticker on this thing or those trade-offs are making you super excited because like me you still have a handful of first gen x.25 ms deployed out there that are all humming along and it's more about the long-term viability of a product to you than the day one performance anyway guys like and share this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it and leave a comment on the Linus tech tips forum link in the video description if you want to discuss this product or if you have any constructive criticism for me and my team also linked in the video description is our support link with options to buy t-shirts give us a monthly contribution or give us a kickback whenever you buy random junk on amazon.com check it out if you 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