Intel Optane 900p Series
280 GB, PCI-Express
Intel Optane 900p Series
280 GB, PCI-Express
6 years ago
It is clear that you can buy a fast solid-state device with 280 GB capacity for quite a bit less money. It is also clear that if you only care about sequential speed, you can do it for less money.
But, and this is the point here, if you need a device that has low latency for queue-depth 1 applications, then for CHF 369 there is no better device on the market - not even close.
I myself use the 900p as a ZFS SLOG device; more or less as a journal / synchronous write cache for my ZFS storage pool. This involves many small synchronous write actions, and the throughput is purely limited by the QD1 latency. This is exactly what this device does exceptionally well.
The power consumption is between 4 and 12 W, depending on use, which is not bad for a "first generation" product, but quite high for a solid-state device.
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6 years ago •
purchased this product
Best achieved speed via PCIe. Only as a boot partition not suitable for older devices without UEFI support.
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6 years ago •
purchased this product
It outclasses any SSD by a long way, many long ways in fact. Switching from a modern SSD to the Intel Optane 900P feels similar to switching from a mechanical 5'400rpm HDD to an SSD.
To take full advantage of the performance and especially the extremely low latencies, I recommend connecting the Optane to a CPU PCIe interface and not to a PCH PCIe interface. Thanks to the low latencies, the computer really feels 100x faster in everyday use than with a normal SSD.
Was able to install Windows 10 on a Supermicro X11SRA-F (Intel C422 chipset) without any additional driver installation etc. The Optane is recognised and displayed like any normal SSD during the Windows installation.
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