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

AWBbox · 5 May 2015 at 21:42

Mine's been waiting in Florida for a couple of weeks, I'm going to pick it up at the end of the month, worked out at £315.70 for the 400GB add-in card

FredFlint · 5 May 2015 at 21:45

I paid £2 more including delivery

AWBbox · 5 May 2015 at 21:47

Very nice! Be sure to let us know how the install/use goes!

stulid · 5 May 2015 at 21:48

Got my hands on the 400Gb model.

AWBbox · 5 May 2015 at 22:03

Hmm, that'll do I guess

What's the boot time like? Does it respond noticeably faster than SATA-based SSDs? For actual day-to-day use I'm still using an Intel X25-M so I'm a little behind the times...

Ayahuasca · 5 May 2015 at 22:07

As above can you notice the difference over a standard SSD?

stulid · 5 May 2015 at 22:10

I already had a fast SSD so its the same to be honest.

But I never use fastboot as i need to go into the BIOS to play with settings often.

Where im hoping to see a big improvement is installing and unpacking GTAV that took a long time on my regular SSD.

AWBbox · 5 May 2015 at 22:13

Ayahuasca said:
As above can you notice the difference over a standard SSD?

I was just wondering if it actually makes a difference against say the best SATA III SSD? NVMe seems to have been bigged up quite a bit but I haven't really heard much from people with first hand experience.

ubersonic · 6 May 2015 at 10:25

Any idea when these are likely to be in stock? really want one lol.

HEADRAT · 6 May 2015 at 10:59

Me too

Ayahuasca · 6 May 2015 at 12:29

stulid said:
Where im hoping to see a big improvement is installing and unpacking GTAV that took a long time on my regular SSD.

Yeah mine did as well, let us know how it does

HACO · 6 May 2015 at 14:12

The second generation NVMe drivers are gonna be big game changers.

crinkleshoes · 6 May 2015 at 15:56

For comparison... Samsung 951 512GB just installed:

Samsung951-512GB by CosmicLogos, on Flickr

stulid · 6 May 2015 at 19:41

Redone the benches using the latest versions of the tests.

FredFlint · 7 May 2015 at 15:30

Hi,
My drive was delivered today.
First run:

Second run after updating software and installing Intel nvme driver:

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layte · 9 May 2015 at 01:34

I gave mine a few more threads to play with.

HEADRAT · 9 May 2015 at 05:35

Deffo going to bag me one of these for my new X99 rig

Dave2150 · 9 May 2015 at 18:33

stulid said:
Got my hands on the 400Gb model.

750 owners, how are your boot times into windows? I saw in a review that it was significantly slower to boot into windows, than other SSD's. I think it was 32 seconds?

Counting from turning on the power button to windows desktop.

crinkleshoes · 9 May 2015 at 21:32

Dave2150 said:
750 owners, how are your boot times into windows? I saw in a review that it was significantly slower to boot into windows, than other SSD's. I think it was 32 seconds?

Counting from turning on the power button to windows desktop.

Shouldn't be much slower... won't really be that much quicker either... windows boot is minimal on an SSD really... where the hard drive comes into the equation.

Motherboards have a greater effect on the boot time.

It could be possible that the motherboard that review have used is a bit slower at picking up the pci-e bridge used for these.

Like if you were to enable raid-0 on two normal SSDs through your onboard raid or pci card... the boot time will actually be slower by a good 5-10 seconds because the post process will have to initialise the raid controller and give you time to be able to select the raid controller configuration.

With Asus X99-S and Samsung SB951 (M2 4x PCI-E)... the boot time is not noticeably different from 256GB Samsung 830 & quicker than when I have 2x 480GH Intel 730 drives in Raid-0.

FredFlint · 9 May 2015 at 22:51

My PC does seem to boot slower than before but not by much. Most of the time is the bios post then maybe 2-3 seconds longer than the SATA SSD i was using (M500).