Friday, October 27th 2017
Intel Launches its Blazing-Fast Optane SSD 900P SSD
Intel today announced the launch of the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series, the first SSD for desktop PC and workstation users built on Intel Optane technology. Intel, in collaboration with Roberts Space Industries, announced the new SSD at CitizenCon, a Star Citizen community gathering in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series delivers incredibly low latency and best-in-class random read and write performance at low queue depths - up to four times faster than competitive NAND-based SSDs - opening incredible new possibilities. With the new SSDs, users will unlock more potential from their platform. The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is ideal for the most demanding storage workloads, including 3D rendering, complex simulations, fast game load times and more. Up to 22 times more endurance than other drives also gives the heaviest users peace of mind.
"The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series brings the workstation-class performance and industry-leading endurance of Intel Optane technology to a client SSD for the first time, and we know end users will find exciting ways to take advantage of the drive to do great things," said Bill Leszinske, Intel vice president, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, and director of strategic planning, marketing and business development. "We are eager to see the possibilities unlocked by software developers, like Roberts Space Industries with Star Citizen, and the SSD to offer users new ways to use larger data sets and more complex workloads to do more."
During the event, Intel demonstrated the unique universe of Star Citizen on Intel Core i9 processor gaming systems equipped with the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series. The two companies also announced that an exclusive in-game ship, the Sabre Raven, will come with all Intel Optane SSD 900P Series purchases for a limited time.
"The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is amazingly fast, easily the fastest drive I have ever used," said Chris Roberts, chairman and CEO at Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries. "Our Star Engine developers have been working on technology to improve loading times using new techniques developed for Star Citizen and optimized for the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series, which is the fastest SSD we've tested. We continue to enhance Star Citizen so the performance benefits with Intel Optane drives will continue to grow, alongside Star Citizen, into the future."
CitizenCon will be livestreamed from Frankfurt starting at 6:00 a.m. PDT Oct. 27.
The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is available through local online retail outlets worldwide, starting Oct. 27. For more details on Star Citizen and the Sabre Raven ship, visit Roberts Space Industries. An Intel white paper on evaluating the SSD is available. For more information on the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series and Intel Optane technology, visit Intel's solid state drives page.
The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series delivers incredibly low latency and best-in-class random read and write performance at low queue depths - up to four times faster than competitive NAND-based SSDs - opening incredible new possibilities. With the new SSDs, users will unlock more potential from their platform. The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is ideal for the most demanding storage workloads, including 3D rendering, complex simulations, fast game load times and more. Up to 22 times more endurance than other drives also gives the heaviest users peace of mind.
During the event, Intel demonstrated the unique universe of Star Citizen on Intel Core i9 processor gaming systems equipped with the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series. The two companies also announced that an exclusive in-game ship, the Sabre Raven, will come with all Intel Optane SSD 900P Series purchases for a limited time.
"The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is amazingly fast, easily the fastest drive I have ever used," said Chris Roberts, chairman and CEO at Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries. "Our Star Engine developers have been working on technology to improve loading times using new techniques developed for Star Citizen and optimized for the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series, which is the fastest SSD we've tested. We continue to enhance Star Citizen so the performance benefits with Intel Optane drives will continue to grow, alongside Star Citizen, into the future."
CitizenCon will be livestreamed from Frankfurt starting at 6:00 a.m. PDT Oct. 27.
The Intel Optane SSD 900P Series is available through local online retail outlets worldwide, starting Oct. 27. For more details on Star Citizen and the Sabre Raven ship, visit Roberts Space Industries. An Intel white paper on evaluating the SSD is available. For more information on the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series and Intel Optane technology, visit Intel's solid state drives page.
68 Comments on Intel Launches its Blazing-Fast Optane SSD 900P SSD
Can't we all just get along and suffice it to say that everyone can believe what that wanna believe true, false, proven or unproven, confirmed or unconfirmed or whateva makes your boats float :)
You bet your shaved ass that I'm buying two 960 Pros over this while getting double the storage and blistering performance where needed. I don't use a stop watch for boot.
I never said you shouldn't raid SSDs together, I said it's not a good idea in general. You, as an individual, are free to do whatever you want. Just like everybody else.
Link: geizhals.eu/?fs=optane+900p&in=
"normal" prices based on US prices should be ~400€ for 280GB model and ~800€ for 480GB model.
But we don't live our computer lives defragging hard drives. I've used Optane, it works, and it works well. My only point is that Optane caching is not a new feature, the only thing new is the Optane drive itself, but the caching software it uses has been around for years.Trim is a fast command. All it does is go through and wipe any free space that still has data in it. And since since trim has become a pretty much automatic thing now, when you run the trim command through the Optimization tool in Windows, it finishes almost instantly since it is really only deleting what has been marked free in the last few minutes.
Seriously now, these don't even seem to be available yet (amazon.de doesn't have them, I doubt smaller shops do), the prices are there only for fools that pre-order.
In addition to speed, these are starting to look attractive to me because of enterprise level endurance (petabytes). I don't think Optane has the same bottleneck on a filled up drive either. I'll put up with 500GB for this.
Here's hoping for slightly cheaper/slightly larger U.2 versions by next year.
Yea I am waiting for maybe 1TB for 1000? If we get some good competition. I also want a better controler because the controller holds it back. Maybe PCIe4.0 version :) well at that point we might get RAM version which will be 100 times faster so....yea :D
Reviewers need to also start showing 99.9% because 99% for these things dont really show much. I would hope 1% of accesses are not far from the best. 99.9% and 99.99% is where you will see Optane crush other tech.
www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Optane-SSD-DC-P4800X-375GB-Review-Enterprise-3D-XPoint/High-Resolution-Quality
also same with mixed work loads on this is amazing!
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