Intel's new PCIe SSD

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Intel has launched its new high-end PCI Express SSD, the SSD 750. The new drive will be offered in two sizes — 400GB for $389 and 1.2TB for $1,029 — and it’s designed to bring a number of new enterprise features down to the client market. Intel solid state drives have a reputation for quality, but also tend to carry much higher prices than other solutions, so one major question will be whether or not the SSD can live up to its price tag.

 

The 750 uses 20nm NAND from Intel and Micron — the two companies have announced their own 3D NAND efforts, but that technology is still under development. These new drives bring two new features to the client side — NVMe support and the SFF-8639 connection bracket. Here, a bit of explanation may be in order. NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory, the “e” stands for express) is a communication standard that replaces AHCI and is designed explicitly for solid state drives as opposed to being meant primarily for spinning discs. The performance benefits of NVMe are something that we’ve covered before; the interface has a number of improvements that will boost drive performance 

 

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