Intel® Solid-State Drive S3500 Series 480GB SSD
SATA SSD's
Intel S3500 Series 480GB SATA SSD — 2.5" SATA III drive with Intel MLC NAND, ~500/450 MB/s sustained speeds for fast boots, apps and consistent everyday performance.
Product Details
Overview
The Intel Solid-State Drive S3500 Series 480GB is a 2.5-inch SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) SSD built to replace mechanical drives and accelerate system responsiveness. As part of Intel's S3500 family it uses Intel-tuned controller logic and Intel MLC NAND to deliver predictable, sustained performance for client and light-enterprise workloads.
Performance and components
This 480GB S3500 model is a SATA III drive and approaches the interface limits with sustained sequential read speeds in the ~500 MB/s range and sequential writes around ~450 MB/s, depending on host configuration. The drive is optimised for low-latency, consistent I/O rather than peak-burst benchmarks — that means snappy OS boot times, fast application launches and steady performance under sustained transactional loads. The S3500 series uses Intel’s multi-level cell (MLC) NAND and firmware tuned to balance performance, endurance and predictable quality-of-service.
Practical use cases
As a system or boot drive the S3500 480GB dramatically reduces Windows or Linux start-up times and shortens game and application load times compared to HDDs. It’s excellent for everyday productivity, software development, photo editing and playback/scrubbing of video timelines at modest bitrates. For heavy, write-intensive datacentre tasks or pro-level 4K video scratch disks, NVMe drives with higher sustained write bandwidth and greater write endurance are a better fit; the S3500 excels where consistent, dependable SATA performance and cost-efficiency matter.
Specs summary
- Model: Intel Solid-State Drive S3500 Series
- Capacity: 480GB
- Form factor: 2.5-inch
- Interface: SATA III (6.0 Gb/s)
- NAND: Intel MLC NAND (consumer/enterprise-tuned)
- Typical sequential performance: ~500 MB/s read, ~450 MB/s write (host dependent)
- Designed for low latency and consistent sustained I/O
- Warranty: multi-year limited warranty (typical for Intel S3500 family)
Who this drive is best suited for
The Intel S3500 480GB is ideal for home and office users upgrading from an HDD, gamers wanting faster load times without moving to NVMe, small businesses running read-heavy application servers, and users who need a reliable, predictable SATA drive for OS and application storage. It’s a practical choice where consistent performance and endurance matter more than peak NVMe speeds.