[News] Intel Optane SSD 900p Makes a Secret Appearance - has PCI Express 4.0 interfac

[StyM]

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

Intel is still going full force with their Optane technology. For data-center you have already seen a thing or two. For the regular consumer the cache Optane products Intel can't even clear stock of the Optane SSD 8000p giving it away for even for free.

However as mentioned a while ago, there is something new on the horizon, the Intel Optane SSD 900p SSD which uses a PCIe 4.0 interface. News reaches us through our Dutch colleagues of HWI who noticed that 900p SSDs are on pre-order at Centralpoint with a release tomorrow. The Optane SSD 900p will become available as an add-in card or U2 version (with optional an M2 to U2 converter). The units released will be a 240 and 480 GB version with corresponding prices of almost 600 and 1000 EUROs (which is roughly four times that of a Samsung 960 Pro).

[Charles Wirth]

http://www.shopblt.com/item/intel-2....1d280gasx.html

[alfaunits]

Who gives a f*** already? No consumer needs these speeds, and barely any server needs faster SSDs.
Give us 100$ cheap 4TB SATA SSDs already!

[linflas]

Who gives a f*** already? No consumer needs these speeds, and barely any server needs faster SSDs.
Give us 100$ cheap 4TB SATA SSDs already!

Can't speak to servers, but on the consumer side, having near RAM speeds will still make a noticeable difference

[zanzabar]

Who gives a f*** already? No consumer needs these speeds, and barely any server needs faster SSDs.
Give us 100$ cheap 4TB SATA SSDs already!

this is an order of magnitude less latency, it is like the jump from HDD to SSD. this as cache built into things will also make huge diffrences

[alfaunits]

I bet a real double-blind study would find not even 0.01% of consumers would be able to tell any difference.

As for HDD->SSD, you need be much more precise. The first consumer move from HDD->SSDs in ~2008 resulted in WORSE performance, i.e. first MacBook Airs with SSDs, that performed worse than a 2.5% HDD in sequential speeds.
Then there is Raptor/VelociRaptor vs. first really useful consumer SSDs (first gen Intel X25-M). Not really a movement for consumers, again.

Without running several VMs, I cannot tell a difference between a Crucial C300 and a Samsung 8xx m2 PCIe SSD.

[Levish]

I agree; flash pricing has stagnated badly despite solid advancements.