Final Words & Conclusion

Final Words & Conclusion

I am literally a little baffled by the results, they are of the charts and through the roof. The Intel Series 750 PCIe NVMe SSD is a monster! This is incredible, what a performance level. With this release Intel makes a massive step forward to bringing enthusiast client SSDs in this form factor to the consumer channel. Of course there are requirements, you will need UEFI enabled, Windows 7, 8 or 10 with an NVMe driver and you will need a PCI-Express 3.0 environment thus a suitable motherboard and processor. Please do read page 6 on that for the full Monty.

Performance

The Intel 730 PCie SSD performance is close or even surpasses performance as advertised, it can reach well over 2,600 MB/sec reads and even up-to 1,500 MB/sec writes if it gets the right conditions.
 

This however always goes for very selected benchmarks with bigger sequential writes or high block sizes. Once you pass 32/64 KB files sizes the performance jumps up hard and fast easily passing 1,000 MB/sec easily. So the PCI Express storage unit shines at large sequential writes. IOPs performance was very good as well, though our IOPS write test is showing below advertised performance, it was twice that of any SSD we tested. We think that our trace test (in PCMark Vantage 64-bit) is by an excellent base read test. This is a trace test and can emulate what you guys do on your PC but then multiplied by a factor 100. Trace testing resulted into ridiculous fasts scores. Well, everything we threw at this unit was digested with hair and bones in split seconds, so let me just call it what it is, the fastest consumer grade storage unit available on the globe.
 

Overall SSD Usage

An SSD is enjoyable, very much so. If you put a drive like this into your SATA 3 compatible laptop or SATA 3 compatible PC, you'll have no idea what is about to hit you. We very much enjoy the grand sustained performance of this SSD series, if you copy a vast amount of compressed data, then the OCZ Vector will perform seriously fast in performance. Make no mistake, replacing a HDD with an SSD in your desktop PC or laptop eliminates the random access lag of the HDD head, it is no longer mechanical. That, combined with the performance SATA 3 offers these days, is simply a massive difference and probably the best upgrade you can make for your computer anno 2015.

Street prices:

We looked up the numbers, you may expect the following prices:

• 400 GB @ 430 EURO = 1,08 / GB
• 1.2 TB @ 1,128 EURO = 1,00 / GB

These are street prices and as you can see they are reasonable but not cheap. You'll receive a five year carry-in warranty with this product which is guaranteed with 70 GB per day writes. MSRP in USD are 389 for the 400 GB model and 1,029 USD for the 1.2 TB version as tested today. So that is slightly below 1 USD per GB.

The Verdict

I am still a little shocked as to what we just tested, never ever I have seen anything this fast. Everything is done right and impressive. Excruciating performance and power-loss protection come to mind as key factor. You do need to use the right combination of OS/UEFI motherboard and CPU, we do recommend X79/X99 and Z87/Z97 here. But people buying a product like this surely will have such hardware already, right? You will receive a five year carry-in warranty with this product that is rated at 70 GB/per day writes, these are huge numbers as that is close to 128 TB guaranteed writes. So whatever you are planning with this storage unit, you are good to go from gaming, overall net pc usage (albeit overkill) to video transcoding and editing and content creation, this is by far fastest SSD available for IO intensive workloads, consumer grade that is. The device is bootable (but do read the requirements), reliable, will last you a long time, has 5 years warranty and simply is extremely fast for this day and era. The looks are just great albeit a bit of a downer is the green PCB, that should have been black. Overall the Intel 750 1.2 GB PCIe SSD is setting a new standard in the SSD storage arena. It deserves our top pick award as this through the roof performance, available right now.

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