Intel TLC 760p and QLC 660p NVMe M.2 SSDs Specifications Leaked

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Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/240641/intel-ssd-760p-and-660p-specifications-and-pricing-listed-online

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Autobuy, a popular online shopping site in Taiwan, recently listed Intel's upcoming 760p and 660p M.2 NVMe SSDs on their store. The SSD 760p will be manufactured under Intel's 64-layer 3D NAND technology and feature TLC (triple-level-cell) NAND. It's obviously the faster of the two with a sequential read speed up to 3,200 MB/s and a write speed up to 1,600 MB/s. The drive offers random access reads up to 350,000 IOPS and writes up to 280,000 IOPS. Intel will offer this model in capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. TigerDirect listed the pricing for them at $96, $120, $240, $448, and $893, respectively.

The SSD 660p is Intel's budget-friendly this time around. Therefore, it will use QLC (quad-level-cell) NAND despite being manufactured with the same technology as its older brother. This SSD can reach up to 1,800 MB/s in sequential read and up to 1,200 MB/s in sequential write speeds with random access read and write performance in the range of 150,000 IOPS. Surprisingly, Intel won't be offering this model in the 128 GB and 256 GB capacities. Instead, the lowest capacity model will start from 512 GB and make its way up to 2 TB. Unfortunately, pricing wasn't available at the time of this article.

It looks like Intel's next NVMe SSDs are finally going to be revealed. Intel hasn't had any real high performance SSDs recently besides Optane. While looking at the specs of the 760p seems to indicate we could see some pretty decent performance, I'm still guessing it won't quite touch the 960 evo, never mind the PM971/PM981 that Samsung has released and will most likely have consumer variants for soon. I don't think Intel is going to use their own custom controller seeing as their efforts are currently focused on Optane, so they'll probably be using a third party controller from the likes of Marvell and SMI. 

 

However, what could be more interesting is that Intel also seems to be planning to release the first consumer QLC drive, the 660p. It will only come in 512GB+ variants, though, which makes sense. With QLC you definitely need more parallelism to get decent write speeds, so 128 and 256gb variants would probably really suffer in that regard. However, pricing unfortunately wasn't released so we don't know how much these would cost. I'm guessing that these would cost around the price of higher end TLC SATA drives, though performance is still unknown. Thoughts?

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Interesting...

5-year warranty as well...according to the table.

 

This appears to be Optane "Ver 1.x" still -- same 3D XPoint / Crossbar technology.

 

I'm still waiting for the 1000x performance, 1000x endurance, 10x density compared the NAND, Intel -- me from 2015 remembers.

http://www.legitreviews.com/3d-xpoint-technology-by-intel-and-micron-to-be-1000x-faster-than-nand_169795

Spoiler

 

 

Also, Optane on a DDR4 slot concept was interesting, but of course it won't actually work in a DDR4 memory slot -- yet.

I guess that is why ASUS added the extra memory-like slot on their Optane supported motherboards.

That said, it looks like 512GB of Optane in a DRAM form factor is really here -- Bev Crair from Intel, me from 2016 remembers.

http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-shows-off-512gb-optane-drive-with-3d-xpoint-memory-that-fits-in-ddr4-slot_176826 

Spoiler

 

 

 

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maybe i do need a new ssd because mine is corrupting

 

 

 

probably requires kaby lake.

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1 hour ago, -rascal- said:

This appears to be Optane "Ver 1.x" still -- same 3D XPoint / Crossbar technology.

 

These drives aren't Optane, they're normal NAND, as evidenced by TLC/QLC

1 hour ago, -rascal- said:

I'm still waiting for the 1000x performance, 1000x endurance, 10x density compared the NAND, Intel -- me from 2015 remembers.

http://www.legitreviews.com/3d-xpoint-technology-by-intel-and-micron-to-be-1000x-faster-than-nand_169795

I believe Intel has addressed that before: Optane flash itself is all that compared to NAND, but due to limitations of stuff like the controller in reality you can't quite achieve all that.

 

As for density, I'm also guessing Intel might not have been comparing to 3D NAND

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2 hours ago, DocSwag said:

These drives aren't Optane, they're normal NAND, as evidenced by TLC/QLC

I believe Intel has addressed that before: Optane flash itself is all that compared to NAND, but due to limitations of stuff like the controller in reality you can't quite achieve all that.

 

As for density, I'm also guessing Intel might not have been comparing to 3D NAND

 

Dammit...saw Optane, and immediately jumped to conclusion too quick.

I'm just dying inside now...thought Intel has finally fown de wae.