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

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/03/2017 09:17 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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SirDremor
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#5415502 Posted on: 04/03/2017 09:53 AM

The only thing that can make this attractive is an insanely low price.
But knowing Intel and the "nature" of this SSD - it won't be the case.

So I can't see how it can be popular with anyone.

DrunkenDonkey
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#5415503 Posted on: 04/03/2017 09:57 AM

Well, considering it is likely to be real world 8-10x faster than any other ssd on the market, low price could probably be the least of a reason to buy. Still, hope it meets expectations.

Kaarme
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#5415524 Posted on: 04/03/2017 11:11 AM

Are the chips still so large and low density they can't fit an actually usable size in the M.2 format? Now we only got those 16/32GB joke drives as M.2. These new ones seem to be plain PCIe slot behemoths and U.2 drives.

SirDremor
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#5415538 Posted on: 04/03/2017 11:45 AM

Well, considering it is likely to be real world 8-10x faster than any other ssd on the market, low price could probably be the least of a reason to buy. Still, hope it meets expectations.

And how can it be 8-10x faster than already faster SSDs?
Or do you want to say that somehow today's SSDs doesn't have real world performance?

AlmondMan
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#5415550 Posted on: 04/03/2017 12:27 PM

Well, considering it is likely to be real world 8-10x faster than any other ssd on the market, low price could probably be the least of a reason to buy. Still, hope it meets expectations.

Not really - Optane memory is likely to perform much worse than "normal" SSDs.

http://semiaccurate.com/2017/03/27/intel-crosses-unacceptable-ethical-line/

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