Intel Working On 900P Consumer Optane SSD with High Volume Capacity

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/03/2017 08:17 AM | source: | 13 comment(s)

An Intel slide leaked onto the web displaying a consumer version 900P Optane SSD, it is called the Intel 900P and will be available in four models.

Volume sizes will be 280, 480, 960 GB and a 1.5 TB model. The 3D XPoint memory based SSD would get sequential read and wrie performance at a suggested 2.500 and 2.000 MB/s with roughly 500K IOPS based on 4K random writes.

The power consumption of these devices will be high, in use they consume 18 Watt, in Idle that is 5 Watts. The SSD will become available through add-in card (PCI-Express) as well as a U.2. interface based 2.5" unit. When this product series will be available is unknown, that's the same for pricing. They will get 5 years warranty though.

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bazookaman3
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#5415616 Posted on: 04/03/2017 02:54 PM

Not to mention you need a new Kabylake processor and motherboard/chipset to use Optane so it is only benefiting people buying a new computer who would already be getting better performance because, they are buying a new computer.

Is that just for the caching solution, hopefully?

I'm interested in the 900p as a full-on boot/OS drive. But, I have x99, so am I out of luck?

Kaarme
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#5415688 Posted on: 04/03/2017 05:21 PM

I don't actually understand why they couldn't make an SSD using this technology that would be competible with any system capable of running NVMe SSDs. Maybe if Intel actually is saving some money by having the CPU perform an operation that is normally handled by the SSD itself in the traditional NAND ones. Thus, only Kaby Lake might have whatever extra functionality is indeed and Intel would make that much more extra profit.

zzidane
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#5415713 Posted on: 04/03/2017 06:11 PM

well they better make some sense out of this, coz the "cache" models are pretty much ****ing useless

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