THE 335 SERIES 240GB

Aside the SSD Intel packs what i believe is the best 2.5" to 3.5" aluminum bracket in the market, always in terms of quality and size.

The 335 Series 240GB SSD is nothing exciting in terms of design since just like the 330 and the 510/520 we just see a small Intel logo at the top.

As it is standard with most SSDs out there a large sticker at the bottom of the drive has the drives installed firmware version, barcodes, serial number, country of manufacture, factory roll out date, capacity and several certification logos.

Unfortunately Intel has yet to resolve the corrosion like issue with the aluminum used with their SSDs. I am pointing this out however because time and again I’ve heard people say that they got a used Intel drive because the housing looked like this.

SATA III connectivity but no firmware update pins (not needed actually since you can perform firmware updates). 

Opening the drive revealed that this is actually the 2nd revision and not the original version launched 2 months ago.

There are a total of sixteen Intel/Micron 20nm NAND modules (eight on each side of the PCB) each 16GB in capacity.

We've seen the SandForce SF-2281 controller quite a few times in the past, what I’m really looking forward to is the SF-3xxx which should arrive in stores by the end of Q1 2013.