The Intel SSD 525 series case-less mSATA (mini-SATA) design has a significantly smaller footprint than a 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD), and enables fast read/write access times and a significant I/O and throughput performance improvement as compared to HDDs. This design makes it ideal for new and innovative small form factor computing platforms that have size and weight requirements that traditional 2.5-inch or 1.8-inch HDDs cannot meet; such as, netbooks, thin-and-light systems, mini- and sub-notebooks, all-in-one computers, and embedded platforms.

By combining Intel's high quality 25nm NAND flash memory technology with SATA 6Gb/s interface support, the Intel SSD 525 Series delivers sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s.