Intel 750 Series 2.5" SSD Review

[nicklmg]

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1FeScfP
Amazon: http://geni.us/1Wg9

 

We know that Intel's new 750 Series SSDs are amazing... but just how far ahead of "traditional" consumer storage drives are they?

 

[Jimbillroo Digital]

Wish I had a Intel SSD in my system.

 

Also, first.

[Frost Byte]

hi nick

[mushies1337]

hi nick [2]

[hiyayhi]

Gahd dayum I love that thing, too bad I don't have a grand sitting around.

[ManIkWeet]

I have been waiting for this video!

 

I kind of want to see some stuff:
Boot times
Game loading times
File transfer times
Full Windows installation times

You know, actual real life stuff, would be cool!

[blu4]

This is how how I felt when I saw those numbers. Honestly the price for performance? Not bad. I saw the 400GB versions on ebay for £400-£500. Not exactly cheap but still in a price range of an enthusiast- this said however when you can fully utilize a drive like that otherwise RAID 0 normal SSDs will do just fine. Another thing @Slick what did you mean when you said "the drive is too fast to produce meaningful results"? What procedures did you use? Apart from those crazy synthetic benchmarks, we'd like to see real world results too.. How about getting two of them and transferring terabytes worth of 4K raw material? That should do the trick. Great video as always. Keep it up.

 

[guyf2010]

So is that a 30 Watt SSD? That's a fair bit of power, it might have to be factored into power supply choices if they take off. I get that currently anyone buying an SSD in that price range is going to have an overkill PSU, but if they drop in price, who knows.

[andrew.neubauer0409]

That is one hell of a drive. If that NVME standard becomes common practice that will be amazing. Of course assuming that the price goes down somewhat.

[henrizzle]

How would this compare to speeds on a ramdisk? @Slick

[bnShadow13]

I'm still wondering about SATA-express for NVMe.

[Danger Dog]

Despite of being just synthetic numbers, they're pretty impressive. I'd like to see some more footage on how this drive performs in real life

[cynexit]

Also, why exactly does this SSD need such a large heat sink? I'm currious which components produce the "extra heat" compeared to other SSDs (which run with nearly no heat output).

[JoePro87]

Hey Luke, what I would really love to see is how well it performs on a PS3 or PS4. So, if you have a spare one lying around, you should consider doing a video where you try to install/load a game on the original hard drive and the 750 series. Let's see some real world performance, and how much of a difference it will really make for us gamers.

[go3001]

Hey Luke, what I would really love to see is how well it performs on a PS3 or PS4. So, if you have a spare one lying around, you should consider doing a video where you try to install/load a game on the original hard drive and the 750 series. Let's see some real world performance, and how much of a difference it will really make for us gamers.

I think you're on the wrong forums... Every other part on console will probably bottleneck

[Kirky2k15]

Can someone post the numbers and how this compares to the Samsung SM951 and 941 please? 

 

I've just bought a 951 using a PCIe adapter as my z97 mobo's M.2 slot is x2 only so I can't SLI 

[slightlyjaded]

My first question is.... This video is a bit old isn't it? My second is, are you guys going to review the sm951?

[slightlyjaded]

Can someone post the numbers and how this compares to the Samsung SM951 and 941 please? 

 

I've just bought a 951 using a PCIe adapter as my z97 mobo's M.2 slot is x2 only so I can't SLI 

xp941. I haven't upgraded, (and probably won't) check pcper for a sm951 benchmark.

[JoePro87]

I think you're on the wrong forums... Every other part on console will probably bottleneck

 

No, I'm definitely on the right forum. Obviously there are going to be bottlenecks. That's kind of the point. As closed of a system as a game console is, being able to eliminate the only bottleneck you can (hard drive speed), it would be interesting to see exactly what point the rest of the system can handle. 

 

Think about it, then we would know just how fast a PS3 or PS4 could handle for transfer speeds.

[slightlyjaded]

No, I'm definitely on the right forum. Obviously there are going to be bottlenecks. That's kind of the point. As closed of a system as a game console is, being able to eliminate the only bottleneck you can (hard drive speed), it would be interesting to see exactly what point the rest of the system can handle. 

 

Think about it, then we would know just how fast a PS3 or PS4 could handle for transfer speeds.

The simple answer is it won't.

NVMe isn't supported by any playstation or xbox, what made you think it'll actually work when it won't work on 99% of the motherboards on the planet.

[Pool]

What I want to know is how fast it loads windows. I somehow think it should be the most important thing to know ?

[NiftyMist]

I would love to have one of the PCIe versions running in my system just for the looks.  Oh, yeah and maybe the OS

[NiftyMist]

What I want to know is how fast it loads windows. I somehow think it should be the most important thing to know ?

I would love to see how it handles start up times and normal every day usage for sure.  Might be an awesome video that could make people want to buy the product more.

[Nivius]

well this is the first step in making ssd's even faster, i think they will have to make the connection system more fool proof and MB makes need to start to support it, then this could be a new thing next in a few years.

 

i personally still use a SSD from the first generation of them (~150mb/s r/w somthing) so anyone of the new ones seems fine to me.

[Nomy]

Those benchmarks are unbelievable, did not expect it to smoke the Samsung  so hard

Would love to see some boot/loading times on the Intel SSD.