Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 2, 2015 @04:25AM from the good-kind-of-race-for-the-bottom dept.

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.

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My problem with SSDs by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-02 05:14 · Score: 0, Troll

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.