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Intel Corp. announced its new 750-series solid-state drives this week. The new SSDs are designed for high-performance desktops and the manufacturer calls the drives its “highest-performing client SSDs”. With read speeds up to 2.40GB/s and capacities up to 1.2TB, the Intel 750-series SSD is a dream of any performance enthusiast.

The Intel 750 SSDs are based on the company’s own proprietary controller known as the CH29AE41AB0 that supports various types of NAND flash memory with ONFI interface as well as PCI Express host interface and NVMe protocol. The same controller is utilised on Intel’s DC P3700 enterprise-class solid-state drives. The 750 SSDs use IMFT’s multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory produced using 20nm fabrication process and are equipped with 2.5GB of DDR3 DRAM cache.

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Intel SSD 750-series

The new high-end consumer solid-state drives from Intel are available in 400GB and 1.2TB capacities in order to address customers with relatively limited budgets and customers with requirements for higher storage capacities. The Intel 750-series SSDs come in PCIe 3.0 x4 half-height half-length (HHHL) add-in-card form-factor. Eventually Intel plans to release 2.5” versions of the 750-series SSDs with SATA Express SFF-8639 connector (which supports four lanes of PCI Express 3.0).

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Intel SSD 750-series in PCIe and 2.5″ SATAe SFF-8639 form-factors. Image by TechReport

Thanks to advanced controller and high-speed NAND, Intel’s 750-series solid-state drives can deliver truly stunning performance for consumer-grade SSDs. Intel declares sequential read/write speeds up to 2.20/0.9 GB/s for the 400GB version and up to 2.40/1.2 GB/s for the 1.2TB flavour. Thanks to support of the NVM Express (NVMe) protocol, the new SSDs should deliver considerably higher performance in real-world applications than the drives with similar interfaces, but which rely on the outdated AHCI standard. Still, in many workloads that require intensive writes, Intel’s 750-series SSDs will be behind a number of other high-end SSDs available today.

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“Intel’s SSD 750 Series drive shows levels of performance that we have yet to see on the consumer storage market at a somewhat affordable price point,” said Luke Hill, KitGuru’s senior SSD expert, in his review of the Intel 750-series SSD. “While it may not be the fastest consumer drive for write operations, read performance is outstanding.”

Intel rates the SSD 750 drive for 70GB writes per day, with a total of up to 219TBW (terabytes written). The 750-series SSDs from Intel are covered with a five-year limited warranty.

The suggested retail price of the Intel SSD 750 400GB is $389, the more capacious 1.2TB version will retail for $1029. Overclockers UK currently offers Intel SSD 750 400GB for £369.98 and the 1.2TB version for £969.98.

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KitGuru Says: While Intel’s 750-series SSDs offer excpetional performance for consumer applications, it is rather noteworthy that the manufacturer did not tune them to deliver great performance in write-intensive applications. The drives use the same controller as the higher-performing Intel DC P3700-series SSDs, which have fantastically high sequential write speeds between 1.08GB/s and 2GB/s. Basically speaking, Intel clearly wanted to position its 750-series SSD as a solution for gamers and performance-minded enthusiasts, not professionals who require high sequential write speeds in certain workloads (and who can afford more expensive drives). If you do not mind relatively slow write speeds (and the absolute majority of users should hardly care about them), then the Intel 750-series SSD 400GB is a thing to consider. While the drive is definitely not affordable (especially in the U.K.), it is worth every penny spent. Moreover, given the recent developments on the market of high-end graphics adapters, a $390/£370 premium SSD does not seem too expensive.

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Intel SSD 750 Series 1.2TB PCIe NVMe Review https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/luke-hill/intel-ssd-750-series-1-2tb-pcie-nvme-review/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/luke-hill/intel-ssd-750-series-1-2tb-pcie-nvme-review/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:00:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=243145 The push for greater performance from storage devices is seeing enthusiast drives transition towards PCIe-linked connections for increased bandwidth. While faster hardware is great, on paper, it is of limited use if the surrounding ecosystem is unable to put the performance increases to effective use. That's where the SSD-optimised Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) specification comes …

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The push for greater performance from storage devices is seeing enthusiast drives transition towards PCIe-linked connections for increased bandwidth. While faster hardware is great, on paper, it is of limited use if the surrounding ecosystem is unable to put the performance increases to effective use.

That's where the SSD-optimised Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) specification comes into the picture. Today we will be looking at one of the first storage devices to make NVMe accessible for enthusiast consumers – Intel's SSD 750 Series PCIe drive.

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In the SSD 750 Series drive, Intel is aiming to give enthusiast consumers an SSD that is built for raw performance. There's no compromising when it comes to form factor, size, or power consumption – drive performance is the ultimate objective, with special emphasis on random operations. The big benefit that NVMe brings to the 750 Series SSD is lower latency, thanks to a combination of CPU-attached PCIe lanes and the specification's different CPU overhead.

Shipping in capacities of 400GB ($389) and 1.2TB ($1029), Intel is using a standard PCIe 3.0 x4 connector to feed the half-height, half-length (HHHL) add-in card version, while the 2.5″ (15mm-thick) alternative receives its four PCIe 3.0 lanes via the SFF-8639 connector. We actually saw an implication of more widespread consumer support for the SFF-8639 connector when we reviewed Asus' NVMe-supporting TUF Sabertooth X99 motherboard.

With head-turning performance numbers being thrown around, such as 2,400/1,200 MBps sequential read/write and 440,000/290,000 4K random read/write IOPS, let's take a closer look at Intel's SSD 750 Series drive and head on into testing.

Specification:

  • Capacities: 400GB, 1.2TB.
  • Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe).
  • Form Factors: 2.5-inch with SFF-8639 connector, HHHL PCIe x4 Add-In Card (AIC).
  • Memory Components: Intel 20nm MLC NAND.
  • Sequential Read/Write Speeds (up to): 2,200/900 MBps (400GB), 2,400/1,200 MBps (1.2TB).
  • 4K Random Read/Write (up to): 430,000/230,000 IOPS (400GB), 440,000/290,000 IOPS (1.2TB).
  • Latency Read/Write (typical): 20/20 μs (400GB), 120/30 μs (1.2TB).
  • MTBF: 1.2 million hours.
  • Endurance Rating: 70GB Writes Per Day, Up To 219TBW (Terabytes Written).
  • Warranty: 5 Years
  • Power Consumption (Idle): 4W (400GB), 4W (1.2TB).
  • Power Consumption (Active) Read/Write: 9/12 W (400GB), 10/25 W (1.2TB).
  • Weight (up to): 195g (AIC), 125g (2.5″).
  • Operating Temperature: 0-55°C (AIC), 0-70°C (2.5″).
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