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

[StyM]

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/int...-capacity.html

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.

[zalbard]

Could be interesting depending on the price.

[alfaunits]

5/18W power consumption???? LOL, my laptop uses less