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Designed for enthusiasts and workstations, the key feature of Intel's SSD 750 Series is its adoption of Non-Volatile Memory Express or NVMe, bringing multiple queues and lower latency with a direct path from the storage to the CPU. The drive is rated to deliver sequential read performance of up to 2.4GB/s with sequential writes hitting 1.2GB/s...
The SSD 750 series is Intel’s first PCI Express Gen3 x4 SSD that has been designed for enthusiast and workstation markets. The key feature of the SSD 750 series is its adoption of the new performance controller interface known as Non-Volatile Memory Express or NVMe for short.  So what exactly is NVMe? In short NVMe will replace AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface), a software interface that dates back more than a decade. Given its age, AHCI was designed for hard drives and is therefore optimised for high latency rotating drives rather than low latency non-volatile storage. That being the case, AHCI isn’t the best interface for taking advantage of PCI Express SSD technology and therefore the industry leaders such as Intel, Samsung, and LSI developed a software interface that can, enter NVMe. The key advantages of NVMe include lower latency, multiple queues and higher queue depths. Thus far there are just two models found in the SSD 750 series and they boast capacities of 400GB and 1.2TB. There is clearly a huge gap between the storage capacities of these models, so we expect to see at least an 800GB model added in the future. These PCI Express Gen3 x4 SSDs coupled with their NVMe support are rated to deliver sequential read performance of up to 2.4GB/s with sequential writes hitting 1.2GB/s. Of course another advantage of taking the direct path from the storage to the CPU using NVMe is the reduction in latency, which Intel says is less than 20us for sequential access. |
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MeMa |
Posted on: 04/09/2015 05:09 AM
Who wants to buy me one?  |
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cali98 |
Posted on: 04/21/2015 12:14 PM
Samsung SM951 NVMe will smoke this :-P |