Intel Intros 1.5TB Variants of Optane 905p 3D XPoint SSD

[btarunr]

Intel today introduced 1.5 TB variants of the Optane 905p SSD that implements 3D XPoint memory. The drive comes in half-height PCI-Express 3.0 x4 add-on card, and 15 mm-thick 2.5-inch form-factor with U.2 interface. Both variants offer sequential transfer rates of up to 2,600 MB/s reads, with up to 2,200 MB/s writes. Random access speeds are rated at up to 575,000 IOPS reads, with up to 550,000 IOPS writes. A function of its sheer capacity and 3D XPoint, endurance for these drives is rated at 27.37 PB (bytes written). The drives retain the feature set of their less capacious siblings, including 256-bit AES native encryption. The company didn't release pricing.



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[hat]

"The company didn't release pricing."

Maybe the number is so huge, they're still waiting on the supercomputer to finish doing the calculations to come up with that the price will be...

 

[HTC]

"The company didn't release pricing."

Maybe the number is so huge, they're still waiting on the supercomputer to finish doing the calculations to come up with that the price will be...

Is that the one they used the chiller for in that demo? Seriously doubt the chiller had enough capacity for that ...

 

[jabbadap]

"The company didn't release pricing."

Maybe the number is so huge, they're still waiting on the supercomputer to finish doing the calculations to come up with that the price will be...

PCper says $2199.

 

[bonehead123]

hummm, ~$2.2K for a 1.5TB drive

yea, I'm jumpin on that, like, today, like, right now, as in, I've already ordered 100's of them....

n O t

FYI, to satisfy my neeeed4speeeed, I did order a few 3500/3000 Sammy 970 Pro's !

 

[TheLostSwede]

Is that a U.2 drive? Never?! It seems like Intel is the one and only company that makes U.2 drives, at least ones that are commercially available.

 

[jabbadap]

Is that a U.2 drive? Never?! It seems like Intel is the one and only company that makes U.2 drives, at least ones that are commercially available.

Sure it is, U.2 variant have been available from the beginning of Intel's Optane tech(DC-P4800X).

 

[Scrizz]

I wonder y articles never show the latency of the drives.

 

[StrayKAT]

Is that a U.2 drive? Never?! It seems like Intel is the one and only company that makes U.2 drives, at least ones that are commercially available.

I've got one of the 900p U.2 drives. I guess it's kind of cool, if you don't want drive bays or u.2 ports to go to waste.

It also came with a Star Citizen ship that isn't available anymore. I wonder if it'll be worth anything

 

[TheLostSwede]

I've got one of the 900p U.2 drives. I guess it's kind of cool, if you don't want drive bays or u.2 ports to go to waste.

It also came with a Star Citizen ship that isn't available anymore. I wonder if it'll be worth anything

My surprise was more about the fact that there's another commercially available U.2 drive, than anything else. I don't know of any other company than Intel that makes U.2 drives, yet at one point, it was marketed as the next SATA replacement, which obviously never happened.

I bet that ship will be worth a tidy sum, IF the game ever launches...

 

[bonehead123]

U2 was supposed to be the next holy grail of storage interfaces, but as usual, Intel wanted to cash in on ANUTHA big payday, and proceeded to essentially crush or acquire all of the other companies who were planning to push this tech into the marketplace...

So now, we the consumers, are once AGAIN, left at their mercy with little or no competitive options for really fast storage platforms beyond what they dictate.

That way, they can and will control anything and everything about it, and therefore will use their typical, milk-it or bilk-it mediocre/incremental update cycles to keep their cash cow revenue stream in place for anutha 10 years or so.....

 

[E-curbi]

Intel Optane activity this weekend:

905P official page - added 1.5TB AIC and 2.5in U.2 variant, added 960GB 2.5in U.2 variant (didn't make the news) to the already existing 960GB AIC and 480GB 2.5in U.2.

900P official page - prices lowered all three skus; 280GB AIC and 2.5in U.2, 480GB AIC.



Waiting for the 905P in 280GB capacity AIC to launch with those gorgeous blue LEDs.

 

[StrayKAT]

My surprise was more about the fact that there's another commercially available U.2 drive, than anything else. I don't know of any other company than Intel that makes U.2 drives, yet at one point, it was marketed as the next SATA replacement, which obviously never happened.

I bet that ship will be worth a tidy sum, IF the game ever launches...

Yeah, that sucks. Not to excuse Intel, but maybe if we actually moved away from SATA, we'd see them more. There's only so much space on a board for M.2 (not to mention heat), so technically, I think it's better.

 

[hat]

Yeah, that sucks. Not to excuse Intel, but maybe if we actually moved away from SATA, we'd see them more. There's only so much space on a board for M.2 (not to mention heat), so technically, I think it's better.

Not sure how I feel about that. Though m.2 is just the form factor, and can interface with either SATA or PCI-E. Seems we've been stuck on SATA 3 for ages, but I also find it odd that they're relying on PCI-E for that now... and overheating problems are no stranger to NVMe drives, either. Benchmarks are fun to look at and all, but I prefer a cool running, reliable drive to a hot, potentially unreliable drive.