Intel DC P3520 Series PCIe

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Pros:

Good Performance, Relatively High Endurance, 5-Year Warranty, Highly Competitive Pricing
Excellent price, Good light workload performance, Increased endurance, Low power consumption
Intel SSD DC pedigree remains unmatched in quality control testing and reliability, Cost/GB below $0.50 for an Intel NVMe Datacenter SSD

Cons:

Not Quite As Fast As Higher End Offerings
Budget enterprise parts carry with them budget performance and endurance, P3xxx series controller architecture getting long in the tooth (limited to 2TB capacity)

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Last revision on August 25, 2018

Reviewers Liked

Good Performance, Relatively High Endurance, 5-Year Warranty, Highly Competitive Pricing
Excellent price, Good light workload performance, Increased endurance, Low power consumption
Intel SSD DC pedigree remains unmatched in quality control testing and reliability, Cost/GB below $0.50 for an Intel NVMe Datacenter SSD

Reviewers Didn't Like

Not Quite As Fast As Higher End Offerings
Budget enterprise parts carry with them budget performance and endurance, P3xxx series controller architecture getting long in the tooth (limited to 2TB capacity)

Expert reviews and ratings

It was only a matter of time until we started to see value oriented PCIe SSDs in the enterprise segment. With the many advancements in engineering and manufacturing NAND and other SSDs components and the ever growing demand for more performance and more...

By thessdreview.com on July 13, 2017

Intel SSD DC P3520 Series - Find It At AmazonThere are going to be enterprise customers that want nothing but the highest performance, highest endurance solid state storage products for their environment, regardless of cost. For those customers, perhaps...

By HotHardware on January 13, 2017

Intel's DC P3520 lowers the pricing bar for enterprise NVMe SSDs. The restricted capacity may dissuade some with high-capacity requirements, but the boosted endurance, lower power consumption, good-enough performance and excellent pricing will...

By Tom's Hardware on October 03, 2016

By Tom's Hardware UK on October 03, 2016

Despite Optane looming on the horizon, Intel has opted to push 3D NAND into their enterprise datacenter parts. While they have stuck with MLC for their new P3520 Series SSD, we can tell that first generation IMFT 3D NAND was designed more for capacity...

By PCPer on August 25, 2016