Intel 900P

We can get them now but the pricing seems high.

280GB will be around £380 Inc. VAT
480GB will be around £620 inc. VAT

Which makes them double the price of the Samsung 960 Pro drives for same real world performance, so unless I am missing something the value for money seems poor.
 
I am still rocking my £300 Crucial M4 250GB and wanted one of these because its more futureproof and i dont need a lot of space. Maybe its the itch but i was really hoping to see £1 a GB. But be assured as soon as you have one at £480 i will be back for one.

It would last me 5 years easily i think.
 
The endurance on them is a huge upgrade if you do a insane amount of writes.

In a a few of the 900p previews suggest that you can configure the 900p as RAM just like the p4800x however I can't find any substance to this, maybe it''s just theoretical for future products using xpoint.
 
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Gibbs very interested in these. They blow the 960 away which is pretty amazing considering it’s previous performance lead. Have you seen some of the benches and endurance numbers?!
 
Available for order:

Intel Optane 900P 280GB PCI-e NVMe 3.0 x4 Solid State Drive @ £379.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...-nvme-3.0-x4-solid-state-drive-hd-08k-in.html



SSDPED1D280GASX, 280GB Intel 900P, PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D XPoint, Read 2500MB/s, Write 2000MB/s, 550k/500k IOPS, 5yr Warranty.



Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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Intel Optane 900P 480GB PCI-e NVMe 3.0 x4 Solid State Drive @ £599.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...-nvme-3.0-x4-solid-state-drive-hd-08n-in.html



SSDPED1D480GASX, 480GB Intel 900P, PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D XPoint, Read 2500MB/s, Write 2000MB/s, 550k/500k IOPS, 5yr Warranty.



Only £599.99 inc VAT.

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I could have done £499 but not £599. Early 2018 maybe the January sales i will cross my fingers because this and Volta is all i need in my 4770k system.
 
Here are the other format options:


Intel Optane 900P 280GB 2.5" U.2 PCI-e Solid State Drive @ £379.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte....5-u.2-pci-e-solid-state-drive-hd-08l-in.html



SSDPE21D280GASX, 280GB Intel 900P, PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D XPoint, Read 2500MB/s, Write 2000MB/s, 550k/500k IOPS, 5yr Warranty.



Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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Intel Optane 900P 280GB 2.5" PCI-e Solid State Drive with M.2 Cable Adaptor @ £379.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...e-drive-with-m.2-cable-adaptor-hd-08m-in.html



SSDPE21D280GASM, 280GB Intel 900P, PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D XPoint, Read 2500MB/s, Write 2000MB/s, 550k/500k IOPS, 5yr Warranty.



Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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Expensive drives but they are essentially built to Enterprise class levels, so the reliability and lifespan is more than competing products, they are also insanely fast, those IOPS! :eek:
 
The characteristics around loss of power are nice but am amazed that consumers want to buy it given it appears slightly slower than the 960 outside of specialised, frankly unlikely workloads (though in those scenarios it really does dominate!). The write endurance is very nice if you need it of course, so that's a big draw too, though I'm so far off needing higher write endurance that it's pretty irrelevant to me and the better warranty on rivals appeals more. That, and the write endurance isn't effectively as much higher as it appears due to Intel's drive-disabling policy compared with rivals keeping going well past their rated limit.

Still, certainly an interesting product if not one I can see much reason to purchase for home use.
 
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This drive is not a bench mark drive, its a real world performance hero, which is what most people want. :)
 
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This drive is not a bench mark drive, its a real world performance hero, which is what most people want. :)
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From the reviews I've seen it's rather the opposite - in the real world for normal desktop users it has no advantage but instead is great in benchmarks for a handful of task types involving low queue depths and non-sequential reads.

To quote someone you might believe in....
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Which makes them double the price of the Samsung 960 Pro drives for same real world performance, so unless I am missing something the value for money seems poor.
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;)

I hope I'm either proved wrong, or the next gen is much better or whatever cause i love a fast drive :) though not quite as much as I enjoy abusing quotes, sorry Gibbo!
 
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For the people that purchased it Friday and managed to install it, how is it running? Few people have said that Windows 10 install from start to being in Windows is now pretty much a 5 minute job?
 
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