Intel 750 Series 2.5" SSD - Is NVMe the final answer?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,424 words · ~7 min read
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kick this off with a statement you won't often hear me repeating unless you've
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seen all the takes for this shot this is the fastest consumer SSD on the market
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this is the fastest consumer SSD on the
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market today this is the fastest consumer SSD on the market today HCR H
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why do I keep tripping on things this is the fastest consumer SSD on the market
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today hands down there's been a lot of hype around these drives and now it's
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easy to understand why the Intel 750 series ssds post some seriously
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ridiculous performance numbers thanks to Intel utilizing a controller based on
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the NVM Express protocol which is designed to replace the ahci
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architecture we've seen on SATA drives for a while now ahci was designed
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predominantly for spinning Media or hard drives and vme has been developed
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entirely for non volatile memory storage which means it doesn't have to deal with
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the extra weight and the Legacy support built into ahci resulting in a more
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streamlined command set which can be which can work beautifully in
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parallelism which can benefit from Modern multi-core
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CPUs but before we delve into the performance of these drives and the
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impact that mvme has had of course we need to talk about the drive itself we
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only have the 2.5 in drive in office right now we may be getting a PCIe addin
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card version for a special project that we have coming up soon so stay tuned and
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stay subscribed to the channel if you want to see all about that but it
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doesn't really matter because in terms of performance the addin card and the
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2.5 in form factor drive both have the exact same components inside just with a
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different physical appearance layout and obviously the connector but why did they
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even create two versions of the same components more on that in just a
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moment first the physical overview the front is fairly reminiscent of past
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Intel Enthusiast ssds but here we noticed the first shift from gaming
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performance to Data Center Performance the old skull logo has been replaced by
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serial numbers and product specs when we turn the drive to its side you'll notice
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a significant difference in thickness when compared to the previous
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generations of Intel ssds it is not a
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thin Drive By Any Means at 15 mm and
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because of that it will not fit into many height restricted SSD mounts just
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to heads up when we finally flip to the back of the drive we see one of the
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reasons why this drive is so thick the massive badass looking heat sink no more
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Super rough looking finish on the back of your Intel SSD last but not least we
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have the 8639 connector which splits twice to receive power through a
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standard SATA interface and to send data through an sff
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8643 also known as mini SAS HD connector
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which finally connects to a hyper kit from ASUS now the hyper kit is quite a
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special little connector designed by as s which allows you to go from the mini
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SAS HD connector into the hyperkit module then into an m.2 interface which
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is able to fully connect to the PCIe Gen 3 Lanes all the way directly to the CPU
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which is why it is able to offer the same amount of performance as the addin
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card which is great because say you had an ITX x99 motherboard that was
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compatible with the hyper kit you'd be able to have a powerful graphics card
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and an NVMe Drive which is pretty sick
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he a quick reminder this is using PCIe Lanes on your CPU which is great but
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something you may want to take into account for certain setups possibly SLI
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stuff things like that the drive will still be awesome if you have to connect
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it through something like the PCH considering you ran out of lanes but if
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you want the best possible performance you will want it to directly access the
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CPU through those PCIe lanes and with that all out of the way on to
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benchmarking we put the Intel 750 series up against an Enthusiast grade Trad
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traditional style if I can call it that SATA SSD the Samsung 850 Pro the 850 Pro
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is well regarded as a high-end SSD and honestly it's pretty damn badass but man
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it got absolutely destroyed by the Intel 750 series Drive first up we have
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Crystal disc Mark which is the most important Benchmark in our suite by far
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the reason for its importance is that Intel worked with a developers of Crystal dismark to ensure that the
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program will be able to deploy multiple workers with the 750 series drives
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feeding directly into the CPU through the PCIe lanes you'll need a
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benchmarking worker per CPU thread
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including hyperthreads to fully utilize the drive as you can see the 750 killed
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it getting five times faster sequential reads almost three times faster
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sequential rights both running on one thread seven freaking times faster 4K
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reads and a bit over four times faster 4K rights at 8 threads onto more
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standard less optimized benchmarks we have the Intel drive with displayed
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reads five times greater than that of the Samsung drive as well as right
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speeds approximately 2 and 1/2 times greater than the Samsung Drive in addo
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disk the Blackmagic disc speed test results were showed Intel having a read
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speed of almost four times higher than its competitor and a right speed
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approximately 2.4 times greater now it is important to keep in mind that all of
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these tests are synthetic and different for various reasons and may not be
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perfectly representative of real world sit situations we did attempt a few
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standard wheel World SSD benchmarks but we ran into a fairly strange issue the
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Intel Drive was simply too fast to produce meaningful results in our normal
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real world test Suite as it was bottlenecks by other components in our
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system in other real world benchmarks we have attempted this wasn't really a
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problem and naturally we'll find ways to go around this but for now damn so I
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guess that leads fairly well into our conclusion for this video this is a new
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drive from Intel and it's ridiculously fast it is without a doubt the fastest
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consumer grade SSD on the market today but that speed does come at a cost NVMe
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is still very new to the consumer space and if you don't want to take up a PCI
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slot on your motherboard the 2 and 5 in
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drive with the hyperkit solution is the only currently officially supported by a
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few motherboards we haven't even received word yet on whether other
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motherboard manufacturers will support this drive and even if they do we have
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no clue when their Solutions will be available what do you guys think of NVMe
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helpful anyways guys thanks for watching and I'll see you next time