When we reviewed the Intel SSD DC P3700 earlier this year, it was our first chance to get a really good look at what NVMe could do for storage. As a quick refresher, Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is a protocol that is set to replace AHCI for storage. It leverages PCIe as the physical interconnect, specifically PCIe x4 Gen3, which …
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Intel P3700 NVMe SSD Installed In a Win 8.1 Consumer PC – Drivers Benched
In July of last year, Samsung announced their manufacturing of the XS1715, worlds first NVMe SSD capable of performance of 3GB/s throughput and up to 750,000 IOPS. Unfortunately, the closest anyone has come to that SSD, at least from the review perspective, is through public displays of its progress at both Samsung SSD Summits last fall, and this summer. Having …
Read More »Intel SSD DC P3700 Enthusiast Report (800GB)
A few days ago, we released our review of the Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe SSD. This new entry to the enterprise market brought in just under 500K IOPS in a single PCB and single controller design package, a design not needing the traditional RAID solution to achieve performance above 2.5GB/s. As much attention as it gained from the enterprise …
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