Intel Is Hindermost to the Consumer SSD Game

You will have to invite out it, but the new Intel SSD 750 Series is the fastest consumer-grade PCIe SSD currently in the market.

With that out of the way, IT wasn't each roses...

The performance of the SSD 750 Series 1.2TB ranged from blistering fast to downright slow depending on the test. For instance, the SSD 750 killed IT in our single file copy benchmarks, and IT comfortably handled the bundle off of consumer-grade SSDs in near others (Samsung SSD 850 Pro, SanDisk Extreme In favour of and Plextor M6e).

Notwithstandin, the synthetic benchmarks were mixed, with CrystalDiskMark showing weaker than expected sequential interpret performance and haphazard 4K-QD32 execution, while Atomic number 3 SSD provided strong sequential and 4K-64 thread performance. Finally, it was Atto Disk Bench mark that unconcealed the grounds for this repugnance.

When reading and piece of writing data smaller than 4K, the SSD 750 Serial 1.2TB is terribly slow. The SSD 750 didn't yarn-dye until the file in sizes reached 128K in the read tests, though things got moving a lot faster when measuring write performance. This weak small file performance likely explains the sulky virus scan and game induction tests that just matched the fewer ambitious competition, piece we saw strong overall bandwidth in PCMark 7 and PCMark 8 but no factual application improvements.

In that respect's no denying that the SSD 750 Series 1.2TB is fast, but we were hoping to retrieve it hurrying everywhere.

The SSD 750 Series isn't cheap and beingness an enthusiast/workstation series, that's hardly shameful. The 400GB model is set to sell for $390 ($0.97 per gigabyte) and the 1.2TB mold that we reviewed is Seth at $1,030 ($0.85 per gigabyte).

Those were decent prices a few years ago, just with the Samsung SSD 850 Pro 1TB fetching $0.55 per gigabyte today, that makes the Intel SSD 750 Series rather expensive.

And so once more, the SSD 750 Series isn't needfully competing with the likes of Samsung's SSD 850 Pro. Competitive cards such every bit the Plextor M6e Black Version -- the 512GB M6e costs $530 or a little over $1 per gigabyte, while being much slower -- and the SSD 750 Series also lays waste to the G.Skill Phoenix Blade 480GB ($650) and the OCZ RevoDrive 350 960GB ($1120).

Intel is staying quiet on whether we can expect the SSD 750 Series in more capacities than 400GB and 1.2TB. Although there are no plans to release an M.2 version of the SSD 750 Series, the company says it does throw NVMe M.2 drives in the whole kit and boodle.

Pros: Red-hot straightaway, fastest consumer-grade PCIe SSD available. NVMe support, excellent endurance, 5-year warranty.

Cons: Possible carrying into action drops when working with small information. Expensive. Potential compatibility issues with older X79 and Z87 platforms.