If you’re looking for a performance SSD, then you’d probably want to keep your eye on Intel’s new SSD 750 series as it brings a powerful punch to the group.
Intel is really bringing out their A-game with their newest technology that proves to be a threat to its competitors. It gives out a high bandwidth and NAND flash-specific storage with the latest technology. Also, Intel’s solid state really has very much improved with its Non-Volatile Media Express (NVMe).
PCI Express Vs Serial ATA
While we all love our current SATA SSDs that keeps our system performance way faster than a storage device can handle; PCI express-based SSDs are now conquering the SSD world by having a more efficient and more faster performance yet again.
Speaking of PCI Express-based SSDs, these were a real headache before as it often surpasses our budget limit compared to our standard SATA SSDs. Although it may cost more but compared to SATA-based SSDs, benchmarks and tests that surfaced the internet clearly shows that PCI express-based were proving to be a much better SSD than its counterpart.
The speed and the performance actually depends on what you’re using it for. If you do standard web browsing and such, then SATA isn’t that much different compared to PCI Express; they only differ once PC enthusiasts tests these out with heavy gaming and heavy rendering.
The Speed And The Price
Between a half-height half-length (HHHL) add-in card at 2.5 inch x 15mm, Intel provided us with a 400 GB and a 1.2 TB one, with the interface will be at PCI Express Gen3 x4.
- For the 400 GB capacity, it is said to have a sequential 128 KB read up to 2,200 MB/s and a sequential 128 KB write speed up to 900 MB/s. These numbers are actually over the top, compared to other SSDs. But that’s not all; at random 4 KB read, IOPS could go up to 430,000 and write at 230,000 IOPS.
- 1.2 TB on the other hand, sequential speeds went up a bit higher with read at 2,400 MB/s and write at 1,200 MB/s. Random 4 B read also went up from 430,000 to 440,000 IOPS and from 230,000 to 290,000 IOPS.
Thanks to techradar.com, a benchmark was performed and against Samsung XP941 and Samsung 850 Pro, and Intel’s 750 series clearly outperformed both. But while it clearly shows the better pick of all current SSDs out there, price is not a cheap one at approximately $0.86/GB.
Thoughts
Clearly, Intel’s new 750 SSD series is a beast, but in just a few months, you can bet that SSD manufacturers will have something new to show for; especially now that PCI Express-based SSDs are now again out in the market showing a newly improved performance.
