Intel has been a reliable mainstay of our SSD line here at Puget Systems for many years, and their new DC 750 series are among the first NVM Express based SSDs aimed at consumer and workstation systems rather than servers. The direct PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection these drives use allows for speeds far higher than the traditional SATA interface, and the DC 750 series is geared for the fastest performance. They can reach 2,100 MB/s maximum read speeds and 800 MB/s for writes. Another strength of these drives is in IOPS: up to 420,000 IOPS for random reads and 210,000 IOPS for writes.
Please note that these drives require a PCI-E 3.0 slot of x4 size or larger. Using an older PCI-E 2.0 slot reduces both read and write performance, with as much as a 40% drop in maximum read speeds.
Please note that these drives require a PCI-E 3.0 slot of x4 size or larger. Using an older PCI-E 2.0 slot reduces both read and write performance, with as much as a 40% drop in maximum read speeds.
William George (Marketing Project Manager) Says:
These drives are *amazingly* fast, but note that they need PCI-Express 3.0 in order to run at full speed. They also can only be used as boot drives on modern chipsets, like Z97 and X99. I would love to use one on my Z87 at home, but am out of luck (unless I wanted to just have it as a secondary drive).
These drives are *amazingly* fast, but note that they need PCI-Express 3.0 in order to run at full speed. They also can only be used as boot drives on modern chipsets, like Z97 and X99. I would love to use one on my Z87 at home, but am out of luck (unless I wanted to just have it as a secondary drive).
Model: Intel SSDPEDMW800G4X1
Specifications
| Capacity | 800 GB |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Form Factor | 1/2 Height PCIe |
| Endurance (TBW) | 219 TBW |
Performance | |
| Sequential Read (Peak) | 2100 MB/s |
| Sequential Write (Peak) | 800 MB/s |
| Random 4KB Read | 420000 IOPS |
| Random 4KB Write | 210000 IOPS |
Please note that using a PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot is required to achieve full performance. In our testing we have seen up to a 4% drop in write performance and a 40% drop in read performance by using PCI-E 2.0 x4 instead of PCI-E 3.0 x4.
