Intel Launch the new 750 Series range of NVME SSD's in both 2.5" and HHHL Adaptor card versions.

AWBbox · 16 Feb 2015 at 11:57

Intel 750 Series PCI-E NVMe SSDs coming soon!

I have been waiting with baited breath for consumer NVMe solid state drives to become available, I check Google every day to see if anything NVMe-related has popped up within the last 24 hours (maybe I need to get out more) and today found something very interesting.

You've probably all seen the Intel P3600/P3700 NVMe drives on OcUK here: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=2104&subid=2198

But availability on these isn't great, and the price isn't exactly consumer friendly either. Enter the Intel 750 series drives. These were supposed to be released in Q4 2014 but now they have started to appear on some German web retailers (which I shall not be mentioning due to forum rules) with availability showing from 26/02/2015. The price is around £830 for 1.2TB which should mean that the lower capacity variants might be extremely competitively priced for such a massive leap forward in performance, under half the price of the P3600 in fact!

Anyway, I wanted to create this thread to let you know the exciting news and also to ask the OcUK staff if they have an ETA on availability of the Intel 750 Series PCI-E drives?

JeffyB · 19 Feb 2015 at 09:31

If the price is right, could be the ssd speed jump i'm looking for.

ginjaninja · 19 Feb 2015 at 17:26

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-sm951-m.2-pcie-ssd,4045.html

well if the toms review of sm951 is anything to go by...it doesnt look they going to be agressively bring out the new tech at a good price any time soon...talks about first revision will be AHCI and expensive (even if you can get hold of them in retail).maybe intels product/price point will be more appealing..

AWBbox · 19 Feb 2015 at 17:40

The SM951 is not an NVMe drive though.

ginjaninja · 19 Feb 2015 at 22:23

AWBbox said:
The SM951 is not an NVMe drive though.

since product was anounced the specs changed....1st revision will be ahci...but the tom review says 2nd revision will be NVMe

LordBarrass · 20 Feb 2015 at 10:12

I am just awaiting set up details for the 750 series and will soon have them on the system. No lead time on them yet but once I know I will let you all know.

AWBbox · 20 Feb 2015 at 10:26

Thanks LordBarrass, that's much appreciated!

AWBbox · 9 Mar 2015 at 09:34

This could well be the drive in action, looks like Intel are going to be making the big announcement on April 1st (hopefully it's not a joke). The countdown is here:

http://www.intelgamingpromo.com/intel15b/ssd/notice

http://www.gamersnexus.net/images/media/2015/intel/intel-nvme-ssd-2.jpg

** Please don't hotlink images **

via: http://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/1851-intel-nvme-ssd-pax-east

FredFlint · 9 Mar 2015 at 12:56

Looking forward to this, should give a nice boost and push other manufactures to put out some PCIE SSD's.

Aurhinius · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:54

looking forward too it

ginjaninja · 14 Mar 2015 at 10:57

FredFlint said:
Looking forward to this, should give a nice boost and push other manufactures to put out some PCIE SSD's.

lets hope so...something odd is going on, when there is so much interest but no products in retail...

AWBbox · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:38

A few more bits of information for you all today!

400GB AIC Part number is: SSDPEDMW400G401
400GB 2.5" Part number is: SSDPE2MW400G401
1.2TB AIC Part number is: SSDPEDMW012T401
1.2TB 2.5" Part number is: SSDPE2MW012T401

The 400GB variant is already up for pre-order on some sites for around €448 and the 1.2TB is around €1,177, availability is a couple of weeks from now (allegedly). Also found the some parts of the specification too, of course these cannot be confirmed just yet!

(Sorry for hotlinking before, this one is uploaded elsewhere)

FredFlint · 15 Mar 2015 at 21:53

That’s about £320 for the 400GB, probably more with UK tax.

AWBbox · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:26

One UK retailer has listed the 400GB drive at £369.90 and the 1.2TB at £986.35. I really wish Intel had made an 800GB variant of this drive, but that price is a steal considering what the performance will be.

Freddie1980 · 20 Mar 2015 at 17:00

So why should I get excited about these devices? I'm not transferring large file around on a regular basis so will these make Windows, game and my applications load quicker?

AWBbox · 20 Mar 2015 at 17:02

They're over 6 times faster than the fastest SATA III SSDs that are out now. That might not get some people excited but my current machine is extremely old, running a SATA II SSD and an i7 920, this type of tech in my new build makes me pretty excited

ED209 · 20 Mar 2015 at 17:02

Freddie1980 said:
So why should I get excited about these devices? I'm not transferring large file around on a regular basis so will these make Windows, game and my applications load quicker?

I don't see the point in these unless you are moving large files or doing a lot of video editing or coding etc.

for gaming a sata 3 SSD would be fine.

I had 2 x Samsung evos in raid and when loading games and windows etc it didn't seem any faster than having them as a single drive

ginjaninja · 20 Mar 2015 at 18:47

ED209 said:
I don't see the point in these unless you are moving large files or doing a lot of video editing or coding etc.

for gaming a sata 3 SSD would be fine.

I had 2 x Samsung evos in raid and when loading games and windows etc it didn't seem any faster than having them as a single drive

My media server has millions of small metadata files on it...im hoping improved latency of nvme will make a big difference to ui performance.

JeffyB · 20 Mar 2015 at 22:40

Looks about the same speed and price as the sm951 but less capacity (sm951 512gb is £340) have to wait and see.

AWBbox · 25 Mar 2015 at 16:17

The SM951 is almost certain to be slower as it's still using AHCI.

Also it appears that the announcement date for the 750 series has been pushed back to April 3rd.