** NEW INTEL "JACKSON RIDGE" OVERCLOCKED SSD's NOW AVAILABLE!! **

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Hi there


Intel here have a truly amazing drive, pre-overclocked and don't worry there are no stability issues as Intel have being testing for months in far more harsher environments to ensure stability. This is a data centre drive meant for the enthusiast so you don't only get incredible performance but it is also backed by a 5yr warranty.

There is just two drives, check them out:-




Intel 730K "Jackson Ridge" 240GB "Overclocked" Solid State Hard Drive - Retail

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Born from the data center, the Intel® Solid-State Drive 730 Series delivers uncompromised performance for PC enthusiasts by combining factory tuned components and data center DNA.

Maximize your computing experience with the fastest consumer Intel® Solid-State Drive delivered to date. The Intel® Solid-State Drive 730 Series is built with a specially qualified 3rd generation Intel controller. Performance optimized firmware and 20nm Intel® NAND Flash Memory take it a step further by factory overclocking these components for a 50% increase in controller speed and 20% increase in NAND bus speed. Optimized for the most demanding tasks, including digital content creation and extreme gaming, the Intel Solid-State Drive 730 Series delivers low 50ìs read latency, up to 550 MB/s sequential reads1,2 and random reads up to 86,000 IOPS.1

The Intel Solid-State Drive 730 Series also delivers extreme endurance of up to 70GB writes per day1,3 for five years (compared to the industry typical 20GB), providing peace of mind for anyone requiring dependable up-time from their workstation or gaming rig. Intel’s advanced firmware algorithms provide consistent performance that you can rely on for both compressible and incompressible data types, plus data center efficiency and dependability.

Digital content creation experts and PC enthusiasts know the highest storage performance is achieved with RAID configurations, especially as Solid-State Drives start to saturate the SATA bus. Two 240GB Intel Solid-State Drive 730 Series in a RAID-0 configuration provide the same storage capacity as a single 480GB drive— but the throughput nearly doubles to an amazing 1000 MB/s when coupled with Intel
platforms supporting Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Q87, H87, Z87 & X79).


Specification:-
- 128k Sequential Write - 270MB/s / 2 Drive RAID 0 - 500MB/s / 3 Drive RAID 0 - 700MB/s / 4 Drive RAID 0 900MB/s
- 128k Sequential Read - 556MB/s / 2 Drive RAID 0 - 1073MB/s / 3 Drive RAID 0 - 1436MB/s / 4 Drive RAID 0 1635MB/s
- IOPS: 86,000 Random 4kb Reads
- IOPS: 56,000 Random 4kb Writes
- Latency Read: 50us
- Latency Write: 60us
- Intel 20nm NAND Flash Memory
- Intel Controller
- Form factor: 2.5"
- Thickness: 7mm
- Weight: 78grams
- Factory Overclocked ASIC and NAND Bus: 600MHz ASIC Clock / 100MHz NAND Bus Clock
- Warranty: 5yr


Only £179.99 Inc. VAT!!!

ORDER NOW














Intel 730K "Jackson Ridge" 480GB "Overclocked" Solid State Hard Drive - Retail

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Born from the data center, the Intel® Solid-State Drive 730 Series delivers uncompromised performance for PC enthusiasts by combining factory tuned components and data center DNA.

Maximize your computing experience with the fastest consumer Intel® Solid-State Drive delivered to date. The Intel® Solid-State Drive 730 Series is built with a specially qualified 3rd generation Intel controller. Performance optimized firmware and 20nm Intel® NAND Flash Memory take it a step further by factory overclocking these components for a 50% increase in controller speed and 20% increase in NAND bus speed. Optimized for the most demanding tasks, including digital content creation and extreme gaming, the Intel Solid-State Drive 730 Series delivers low 50ìs read latency, up to 550 MB/s sequential reads1,2 and random reads up to 86,000 IOPS.1

The Intel Solid-State Drive 730 Series also delivers extreme endurance of up to 70GB writes per day1,3 for five years (compared to the industry typical 20GB), providing peace of mind for anyone requiring dependable up-time from their workstation or gaming rig. Intel’s advanced firmware algorithms provide consistent performance that you can rely on for both compressible and incompressible data types, plus data center efficiency and dependability.

Digital content creation experts and PC enthusiasts know the highest storage performance is achieved with RAID configurations, especially as Solid-State Drives start to saturate the SATA bus. Two 240GB Intel Solid-State Drive 730 Series in a RAID-0 configuration provide the same storage capacity as a single 480GB drive— but the throughput nearly doubles to an amazing 1000 MB/s when coupled with Intel
platforms supporting Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Q87, H87, Z87 & X79).


Specification:-
- 128k Sequential Write - 482MB/s / 2 Drive RAID 0 - 960MB/s / 3 Drive RAID 0 - 1195MB/s / 4 Drive RAID 0 1331MB/s
- 128k Sequential Read - 556MB/s / 2 Drive RAID 0 - 1073MB/s / 3 Drive RAID 0 - 1436MB/s / 4 Drive RAID 0 1635MB/s
- IOPS: 86,000 Random 4kb Reads
- IOPS: 68,000 Random 4kb Writes
- Latency Read: 50us
- Latency Write: 60us
- Intel 20nm NAND Flash Memory
- Intel Controller
- Form factor: 2.5"
- Thickness: 7mm
- Weight: 78grams
- Factory Overclocked ASIC and NAND Bus: 600MHz ASIC Clock / 100MHz NAND Bus Clock
- Warranty: 5yr


Only £349.99 Inc. VAT!!

ORDER NOW





We are expecting stock first week of April. :)
Prices will be confirmed soon.......
 
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Prices now confirmed, very good prices, on par with Samsung 840 Pro for a competing drive with 5yr warranty.

Lucky me I have one already, which shall be getting a thrashing. :D
 
Look great and good to see Intel refreshing their line up... But on paper (except for the warranty) these look poor alongside the 840 EVO? :(

Benchies plz!
 
Gibbo, look forward seeing a batch of benchmarks :) Normally ATTO gives favourable results, try Quickbench to verify ATTO to which filesizes it favours, IOMeter to test the enterprise qualities of Jackson Ridge, Crystal Disk Benchmark for compressible data or random that is incompressible, Anvil Storage Pro to show up any inconsistencies (normally write speeds).

Was thinking about my next SSD to move my games/programs from HDD to speed up my loads and general usage but none were as reliable looking or had eMLC endurance if things went wrong (normally SAS interface anyway) whereas this fills a gap for durable 3rd Gen 20nm MLC NAND. The memory and controller are factory OC'd by default but you can push this further using Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. What affect this has on durable I'd like to know.

1TB EVO uses 12GB cache and once filled it slows down the performance, data integrity could be compromised during soft/hard shutdown as I experienced with buggy titles. Then Magician causes my system (before I raided 840 Pro's on Intel controllers) to BSOD too much to put up with. Crucial M500 960GB encrypts and verifies data and why I was drawn towards this as a data SSD.

Now Intel releases this, even if capacity isn't as large, for consumers/business use it should be sufficient. Ideally I'd like to see 960TB from Intel unless the capacity is limited due to the overclocking as we see with Titan's.
 
FMTopfan said:
Gibbo, look forward seeing a batch of benchmarks :) Normally ATTO gives favourable results, try Quickbench to verify ATTO to which filesizes it favours, IOMeter to test the enterprise qualities of Jackson Ridge, Crystal Disk Benchmark for compressible data or random that is incompressible, Anvil Storage Pro to show up any inconsistencies (normally write speeds).

Was thinking about my next SSD to move my games/programs from HDD to speed up my loads and general usage but none were as reliable looking or had eMLC endurance if things went wrong (normally SAS interface anyway) whereas this fills a gap for durable 3rd Gen 20nm MLC NAND. The memory and controller are factory OC'd by default but you can push this further using Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. What affect this has on durable I'd like to know.

1TB EVO uses 12GB cache and once filled it slows down the performance, data integrity could be compromised during soft/hard shutdown as I experienced with buggy titles. Then Magician causes my system (before I raided 840 Pro's on Intel controllers) to BSOD too much to put up with. Crucial M500 960GB encrypts and verifies data and why I was drawn towards this as a data SSD.

Now Intel releases this, even if capacity isn't as large, for consumers/business use it should be sufficient. Ideally I'd like to see 960TB from Intel unless the capacity is limited due to the overclocking as we see with Titan's.
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Just these two capacities, next SSD from Intel will be serious kit, PCI-E / M2 interface. ;)
 
Gibbo said:
Just these two capacities, next SSD from Intel will be serious kit, PCI-E / M2 interface. ;)
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Thanks Gibbo :) Also, in your testing did you run Prime95, etc on one core to get better results to overcome CPU C energy saving states which normally holds it back (or disable in BIOS) ?

If we are talking SATA 3.2 spec for native PCI-E 2.0 x4 M2 'up to' 2Gb/s, that's very interesting. Daily use beyond say 1Gb/s is none disconcernable to general users/gamers but for media professional with incompressible data it will be noticeable. Would like to see more client SSDs hitting MTBF of 1.5M - 2M hours, 730 is 2M.

CNET already has a review up (they were too picky) - shows 240GB: 3.8W (1.5W idle), 480GB: 5.5W (1.5W idle) - but it's Gibbo's results I really want to see :)
 
FMTopfan said:
Thanks Gibbo :) Also, in your testing did you run Prime95, etc on one core to get better results to overcome CPU C energy saving states which normally holds it back (or disable in BIOS) ?

If we are talking SATA 3.2 spec for native PCI-E 2.0 x4 M2 'up to' 2Gb/s, that's very interesting. Daily use beyond say 1Gb/s is none disconcernable to general users/gamers but for media professional with incompressible data it will be noticeable. Would like to see more client SSDs hitting MTBF of 1.5M - 2M hours, 730 is 2M.

CNET already has a review up (they were too picky) - shows 240GB: 3.8W (1.5W idle), 480GB: 5.5W (1.5W idle) - but it's Gibbo's results I really want to see :)
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What test do you want me to run, I will stick it in my home PC and compare to my Samsung 120 EVO. But tell me the test and give me a link to download each one please.

I don't like SSD's, its not a graphics card and I can't test it using 3D Mark. ;)
 
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As a novice as to what affects an SSDs performance, what is the advantage of these drives compared to an equivalent?

I ask because for the 240GB model the write speed seems to be half of what other drives are offering.
 
Just to be really fussy, but you seem to have fallen afoul to the cut-n-paste gremlin.

Both are listed as having the same Read and Write speeds in the summary.

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Hi Gibbo, the links for the basic test I mentioned are added below. To make results a bit consistent disable your PCs CPU C states otherwise when idle SSD speeds will be reported as being lower than they should be. No other way of getting Quickbench Pro other than to pay so up to you if think it's feasible. Utilities in bold I'd most like to see benchmarked that would be easy for others to gauge potential performance.

ATTO (free) - http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/atto_disk_benchmark.html
Quickbench Pro ($17.99) - http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Intech Software/STTPRO/
IOMeter (free / guide cos it's complex) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/
Crystal Disk Benchmark (free) - http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html#CrystalDiskMark
Anvil Storage (run SSD bench 0-fill & Incompressible) - http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/Anvil-s-Storage-Utilities.shtml

There are other test you could run like AS SSD (free), SiSoft Sandra 2014 storage tests, and PC Mark Vantage / 8, if you already have them... it's not 3D Mark but close enough to have something a bit interesting happen onscreen ;)
 
Need to see some real benchmarks on these against the other drives in the field.
On paper the performance looks very so so, unless I am missing something here.Expect the quality is no doubt there, but it doesn;t seem next level to me?

Mark
 
Aurhinius said:
I think the EVO will put up some serious competition here if not beat the intel drive however the intel drive will offer much better endurance
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You see for me, all these modern SSD's are damn, its very hard to notice any difference between them and as such now a more important factor for me when buying an SSD would simply be reliable and now Intel have a good performance part, I'd simply always buy Intel, then Samsung. I don't think I'd even look at another brand sorry, I know we sell others but I want the best reliability and I know Intel is the most reliable and the Samsungs are bloody good as well. :)
 
I have an Intel 520 on a sata 3GBs limited mobo, I got it for the stability, warranty and trust, I don't max it out on my board but it just works!

If I needed the upgrade, this would be it at what is a good price for the size compared to my gen!

I waited over two years and Intel was my choice, none of the OCZ issues!, not regretted it at all!
 
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