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

[Gibbo]

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

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!!!

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

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!!

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We are expecting stock first week of April.
Prices will be confirmed soon.......

 

[Gibbo]

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.

 

[Gibbo]

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.

Just these two capacities, next SSD from Intel will be serious kit, PCI-E / M2 interface.

 

[Gibbo]

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

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.

 

[Gibbo]

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

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.