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

[stulid]

Samsung SM951 is a better deal. It's cheaper per GB, has almost similar speeds, better compatibility with older chipsets and 128/256 GB options.

Its iops get rekt by the 750?

 

[crinkleshoes]

Seemingly only in synthetic benchmarks... the tests demonstrating real world performance actually show the SM951 to be the winner in more than half of the usage tests... techspot and anandtech at least

 

[StriderX]

Will Windows 10 come with the ability to actually use these efficiently for system tasks?

 

[stulid]

Will Windows 10 come with the ability to actually use these efficiently for system tasks?

How you mean? you need a NVME operating system for it (8.1, 10 are ready while you need to preinstall a driver being installing Xp+7 etc) and if heavy workloads are you thing these 750 are beasts.

P.S these only work properly/at all on certain chipsets.

 

[layte]

Seemingly only in synthetic benchmarks... the tests demonstrating real world performance actually show the SM951 to be the winner in more than half of the usage tests... techspot and anandtech at least

Faster on lighter loads. The 750 smashes the **** out of the 951 latency wise when the loads get heavy, almost as if Intel have optimised for real world use rather than peaky unsustainable benchmark winning numbers, and its not as if Samsung don't have history for underhand trickery when it comes to banchmarking.

Now given all the recent Samsung SSD related shenanigans (yea, I have a 840evo Samsung are not getting any more money out of me). Do I take a punt on one of their drives, or go for one based on the same controller Intel use in their rock solid DC drives.

Edit: No power loss protection on the Samsung?

 

[Dave2150]

Right here we go.

X99 SOC Champion (BIOS F4g)
5960X
16GB Gskill DDR4 2800@XMP
GTX980
WD 2TB Black +WD 3TB Red
Corsair Neutron 240GB GTX and a Intel 750 400Gb SSD


Bios was set to default, XMP loaded and the boot order to look at the SSD first and only, the two HDD's were disabled from the boot order.

I did a fresh install on Windows 10 technical preview on both SSDs, same drivers, same installation order, same disk clean up after, same optimise drive (trim) after.

The only difference is the Intel 750 install had an additional nvme driver/software/patch installed to get maximum speed from it, without this it is a bit gimped.

Many thanks for taking the time to do this, Stulid

 

[ubersonic]

Mine arrived today and just finished installing it and getting Windows running/etc, It destroys my Samsung 840 DESTROYS IT! haha.

Works fine with X79 and Windows 8.1 too (I wasn't gambling on this, somebody else confirmed it working first).

 

[ED209]

that's some speed your getting lol.

from the normal SSD to this can you see a improvement in the system?

 

[ubersonic]

that's some speed your getting lol.

from the normal SSD to this can you see a improvement in the system?

In all honesty I can, file intensive tasks are running better, and load times on WoW have been reduced (for those who play the game, the HS cast is longer than the following load screen lol).

 

[FredFlint]

In all honesty I can, file intensive tasks are running better, and load times on WoW have been reduced (for those who play the game, the HS cast is longer than the following load screen lol).

Have you installed the intel nvme driver?

 

[ubersonic]

Yeah, before you do that it shows up as Storahci instead of IaNVMe in AS SSD and performance is lower.

 

[FredFlint]

Yeah, before you do that it shows up as Storahci instead of IaNVMe in AS SSD and performance is lower.

The Seq Q32T1 Read score looks low, should be above 2000.

 

[ubersonic]

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?

17-18s from pressing the power button to typing in my password.

The Seq Q32T1 Read score looks low, should be above 2000.

It seems to be a bug with the 64bit version of CDM, the 32bit version gives proper results however:

 

[HACO]

Its iops get rekt by the 750?

Only on intensive workloads. On lighter loads, they're similar.

 

[ubersonic]

Samsung SM951 is a better deal. It's cheaper per GB, has almost similar speeds, better compatibility with older chipsets and 128/256 GB options.

Nope, the price difference between the 400GB Intel and the 512GB Sammy is negligible so the price per GB advantage isn't that amazing, plus the Sammy has less than a quarter of the Intels read IOPS and less than a third of the Intels write IOPS, it isn't even in it's league (sustained MB/s is only useful for copying huge files between/around SSDs, IOPS are what count in normal usage).

Add to that the Intel is rated for a much higher usage over it's lifetime and has an extra three years warranty.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Might pull my soundcard out for one of these, they don't affect GPU performance in any way using the other PCI-E slot does it?

 

[stulid]

Might pull my soundcard out for one of these, they don't affect GPU performance in any way using the other PCI-E slot does it?

Depends on the board, most manufacturers will give you a description of what the slots bandwidth is and what slot shares PCI-E lanes with other slots if populated.

 

[Ayahuasca]

It's only a micro atx Asus Maximus V Gene z77

 

[ubersonic]

It's only a micro atx Asus Maximus V Gene z77

Should be fine if it works, check with other Z77 users first, however it will drop your GPU slot to 8x PCI-E 3.0, which is enough for any GPU out now but may bottleneck a future upgrade /shrug.

 

[ginjaninja]

Another 750 vs 951 AHCI Review

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-750-series-400gb-versus-samsung-sm951-512gb,4143.html