The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280GB Review
by Billy Tallis on October 27, 2017 9:30 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here. This test is run twice, once on a freshly erased drive and once after filling the drive with sequential writes.
The Intel Optane SSD 900P completes the Heavy test with a higher average data rate than any flash-based SSD. Curiously, it performs even better after being filled than it does right after a low-level format. Even the best flash-based SSDs lose a bit of performance when operating with minimal spare area. The Optane SSD by contrast seems to require an extra initialization phase after the format to reach full performance.
As with The Destroyer, the Optane SSD sets records for both average and 99th percentile latency on the Heavy test. The margin for the 99th percentile latency is more significant, with about a 43% improvement over the previous record.
The average write latency of the Optane SSD 900P on the Heavy test comes in as a close second place, while the average read latency sets a new record that is less than half the previous best score.
The Optane SSD's new record for 99th percentile read latency on the Heavy test is 70% lower than the fastest flash-based SSD. The record for 99th percentile write latency is a less impressive 30% improvement over the previous record.
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eddman - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Nice deflection with "I did not meant it as fact since I didn't use such words."Notmyusualid - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
@ eddmanI wish AT WERE bothered by him - he is distracting in so many articles, with his nonsense opinions, that I can't see any real discussion anymore.
I doubt he has any foot in anyone's IT door, as he seems to have amazing amounts of free time to spend commenting on here. Meanwhile - I've been on the go since 05:30 this morning, come here to read about new tech, and yet again, this troll clogging up potentially useful discussion.
I believe ddriver has a mental personality disorder, I'm just not sure which one, since schizoids and narcissists can be similar in some ways, and in no way am I a psych doctor.
Therefore, I wish him nothing but the worst life has to offer.
lmcd - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
I don't care if he ends up with the worst life has to offer, I just want his internet to die for a month or two so we can see what normal comment sections look like.MamiyaOtaru - Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - link
the fact that you think you need to explain the "hypetane" "joke", or that there's anyone who wouldn't get it, says everything that needs to be said about you. You probably felt super clever coming up with that one, cramming two words together like it was the height of humor, and that it was subtle enough some people wouldn't get it. Meanwhile, it was super obvious to *everyone*, so obvious that it isn't even close to funny. It's like you are operating on a lower mental plane and don't even know it, a dunning-kruger of humor.sonny73n - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
Lol. Brutal.Meteor2 - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
Ha ha, indeed!Please folks, don't reply to posts to ddriver. Don't even bother reading them. Don't feed trolls!
melgross - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Trust me, you’ve already reached the level of pointless mediocrity. You can applaud your achievement.ddriver - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Rule N1 - never trust people who say "trust me" ;)lmcd - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
So I'll never trust your objectivity.As if I needed incentive.
investlite - Monday, November 6, 2017 - link
LOL! Mediocrity? It's only 2.7x faster. Since you love analogies, the tesla goes 0-60 in 3 seconds. This does it in 1.4 and you're calling it mediocre. We get it, your disappointed that it's not 1000x faster. Here's my question, how have you not let go of something a company said two years ago?Talk about limiting your mindset, you've restricted your expectations to a statement two years ago when we have a tangible product in our hands now. How about you worry about what we've got instead of what was said about it two years ago?