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Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB
MojoKid writes Today, Intel took the wraps off new NVMe PCI Express Solid State Drives, which are the first products with these high speed interfaces, that the company has launched specifically for the enthusiast computing and workstation market. Historically, Intel's PCI Express-based offerings, like the SSD DC P3700 Series, have been targeted for datacenter or enterprise applications, with price tags to match. However, the Intel SSD 750 Series PCI Express SSD, though based on the same custom NVMe controller technology as the company's expensive P3700 drive, will drop in at less than a dollar per GiB, while offering performance almost on par with its enterprise-class sibling. Available in 400GB and 1.2TB capacities, the Intel SSD 750 is able to hit peak read and write bandwidth numbers of 2.4GB/sec and 1.2GB/sec, respectively. In the benchmarks, it takes many of the top PCIe SSD cards to task easily and at $389 for a 400GB model, you won't have to sell an organ to afford one.
Isn't that what matters most?
What kernel version is needed to support these drives?
Sometimes the "writing on the wall" is blood spatter...
for a dollar!
I would love to replace my HDDs with SSDs, but I won't because, even though they SHOULD be a lot safer (data-wise) than HDDs, they are unreliable because of stupid design decisions.
From what I've seen, the standard reaction of SSD firmware when write integritiy can't be guaranteed is "commit suicide". Your data is till in the disk somewhere, but you can't get it because the firmware won't let you. How stupid is that?
That's a major downside of SSDs considering that SSDs die a little bit every time you write to them.
let's see...
pci express raid controller ~ 100
5 x 256gb ssd ~ 500
$600 vs $1200 (assuming $1 per gb for this intel card)
not sure about about speed. in theory, it should be faster due to raid or stripping (4 or 5 x 500mb/sec).
power and cable is a mess so definitely a con here.
fault tolerance is a plus from raiding.
upgradeable storage capacity is a plus.
otherwise, great for server farms.
Couldn't see OPAL V2 / eDrive support anywhere. Shame because I think it's an essential feature of any SSD these days.
OPAL V2 allows the drive to encrypt using a user supplied key, with near zero performance loss.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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I have backups, every half hour or so.
Sometimes you can do quite a lot in half an hour that would be really annoying to replicate though. That's where it would be nice to at least have the drive be able to give you what it thought it had before it went into a failure state. Even if it's partly corrupted that may be fine, especially for coders who work with lots of little files.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's called an M.2 Socket that's been an industry standard for a couple of years and the biggest part of the standard is 1x PCIE lane for Socket 2 and the new Socket 3 uses 2x PCIE lanes. I've got an Asus Z97 motherboard with one of these though I don't have an SSD that takes advantage of this - Samsung, Plextor, Crucial and a whole rash of others are already starting to come out with versions that do instead of SATA6 speeds. First to market was Plextor though I'll wait until Crucial has their next gen M-Series available that takes advantage of the write speeds.
whew. for a second there, i thought anandtech got scooped.