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kick this off with a statement you won't often hear me repeating unless you've
seen all the takes for this shot this is the fastest consumer SSD on the market
this is the fastest consumer SSD on the
market today this is the fastest consumer SSD on the market today HCR H
why do I keep tripping on things this is the fastest consumer SSD on the market
today hands down there's been a lot of hype around these drives and now it's
easy to understand why the Intel 750 series ssds post some seriously
ridiculous performance numbers thanks to Intel utilizing a controller based on
the NVM Express protocol which is designed to replace the ahci
architecture we've seen on SATA drives for a while now ahci was designed
predominantly for spinning Media or hard drives and vme has been developed
entirely for non volatile memory storage which means it doesn't have to deal with
the extra weight and the Legacy support built into ahci resulting in a more
streamlined command set which can be which can work beautifully in
parallelism which can benefit from Modern multi-core
CPUs but before we delve into the performance of these drives and the
impact that mvme has had of course we need to talk about the drive itself we
only have the 2.5 in drive in office right now we may be getting a PCIe addin
card version for a special project that we have coming up soon so stay tuned and
stay subscribed to the channel if you want to see all about that but it
doesn't really matter because in terms of performance the addin card and the
2.5 in form factor drive both have the exact same components inside just with a
different physical appearance layout and obviously the connector but why did they
even create two versions of the same components more on that in just a
moment first the physical overview the front is fairly reminiscent of past
Intel Enthusiast ssds but here we noticed the first shift from gaming
performance to Data Center Performance the old skull logo has been replaced by
serial numbers and product specs when we turn the drive to its side you'll notice
a significant difference in thickness when compared to the previous
generations of Intel ssds it is not a
thin Drive By Any Means at 15 mm and
because of that it will not fit into many height restricted SSD mounts just
to heads up when we finally flip to the back of the drive we see one of the
reasons why this drive is so thick the massive badass looking heat sink no more
Super rough looking finish on the back of your Intel SSD last but not least we
have the 8639 connector which splits twice to receive power through a
standard SATA interface and to send data through an sff
8643 also known as mini SAS HD connector
which finally connects to a hyper kit from ASUS now the hyper kit is quite a
special little connector designed by as s which allows you to go from the mini
SAS HD connector into the hyperkit module then into an m.2 interface which
is able to fully connect to the PCIe Gen 3 Lanes all the way directly to the CPU
which is why it is able to offer the same amount of performance as the addin
card which is great because say you had an ITX x99 motherboard that was
compatible with the hyper kit you'd be able to have a powerful graphics card
and an NVMe Drive which is pretty sick
he a quick reminder this is using PCIe Lanes on your CPU which is great but
something you may want to take into account for certain setups possibly SLI
stuff things like that the drive will still be awesome if you have to connect
it through something like the PCH considering you ran out of lanes but if
you want the best possible performance you will want it to directly access the
CPU through those PCIe lanes and with that all out of the way on to
benchmarking we put the Intel 750 series up against an Enthusiast grade Trad
traditional style if I can call it that SATA SSD the Samsung 850 Pro the 850 Pro
is well regarded as a high-end SSD and honestly it's pretty damn badass but man
it got absolutely destroyed by the Intel 750 series Drive first up we have
Crystal disc Mark which is the most important Benchmark in our suite by far
the reason for its importance is that Intel worked with a developers of Crystal dismark to ensure that the
program will be able to deploy multiple workers with the 750 series drives
feeding directly into the CPU through the PCIe lanes you'll need a
benchmarking worker per CPU thread
including hyperthreads to fully utilize the drive as you can see the 750 killed
it getting five times faster sequential reads almost three times faster
sequential rights both running on one thread seven freaking times faster 4K
reads and a bit over four times faster 4K rights at 8 threads onto more
standard less optimized benchmarks we have the Intel drive with displayed
reads five times greater than that of the Samsung drive as well as right
speeds approximately 2 and 1/2 times greater than the Samsung Drive in addo
disk the Blackmagic disc speed test results were showed Intel having a read
speed of almost four times higher than its competitor and a right speed
approximately 2.4 times greater now it is important to keep in mind that all of
these tests are synthetic and different for various reasons and may not be
perfectly representative of real world sit situations we did attempt a few
standard wheel World SSD benchmarks but we ran into a fairly strange issue the
Intel Drive was simply too fast to produce meaningful results in our normal
real world test Suite as it was bottlenecks by other components in our
system in other real world benchmarks we have attempted this wasn't really a
problem and naturally we'll find ways to go around this but for now damn so I
guess that leads fairly well into our conclusion for this video this is a new
drive from Intel and it's ridiculously fast it is without a doubt the fastest
consumer grade SSD on the market today but that speed does come at a cost NVMe
is still very new to the consumer space and if you don't want to take up a PCI
slot on your motherboard the 2 and 5 in
drive with the hyperkit solution is the only currently officially supported by a
few motherboards we haven't even received word yet on whether other
motherboard manufacturers will support this drive and even if they do we have
no clue when their Solutions will be available what do you guys think of NVMe
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