1) Intel’s “real” enterprise SSD (DC P3700 …) pricing is highly competitive (you really get value for the money), in contrast to their Xeon CPU pricing – caused by higher competition in SSD market

2) These Professional/SmallBusiness 730 SSDs are not aimed, but suitable for 24/7 server workloads – they have a very high performance consistency compared to the Samsung/SanDisk Prosumer Drives (840 Pro, Extreme)

View last graph on this Anandtech review
– https://www.anandtech.com/show/7803/intel-ssd-730-480gb-review/2

They have about 1.7 higher performance consistency so they are better.

I doubt, if this is really usefull for a prosumer. As long as you aren’t running “half serious” big data applications 24/7 – there is no use case i can image. (For serious big data, you will buy solutions from your vendor, or at least use pcie)

Maybe there is some use case for high-performace RAID Storage, but you would need 10Gb LAN. The latency and endurance

are on par with the Samsung 840 (RAPID enabled).

So you are right, they aren’t price competitive in the consumer/small business market, because you pay for this consisitency/lwo latency feature, that nobody realy needs.

Anybody knows other use cases?

The demand has nothing to do whatsoever with consumer sales as they are such a small part of the entire flash picture. This is an interesting announcement by Intel, however, and does bring forward a few thoughts, these including validating the reality of a shortage in flash, or simply, flash can be obtained from outside sources cheaper than they themselves are making. WE have seen tyhis in Samsung with SSD controllers where they have used outside sources, rather than there own, simply because their contract commitments had better dividends than using the controllers in their own products…. Series 9 Ultra.

Is There really so much of a demand?
I’m guessing Neweg is one of the biggest ssd sellers and the Intel drives don’t have many reviews compared to 1.Samsung 2. muskin 3. crucial 4. corsair 5. Kingston. On & On down the line. I can’t understand there pricing it doesn’t seem competitive.

The 335 got better reviews than the newer 530 the 730 seems
way overpriced. Does Intel want to sell to consumers or just business.
The 520 was at the top of the charts and the newer ssds seem
there not as good as there competition or their way overpriced. SSD prices should be around 240gb = $100.00 480gb = $200.

When demand exceeds capacity, a Plan B is in order.