The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280GB Review
by Billy Tallis on October 27, 2017 9:30 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here. As with the ATSB Heavy test, this test is run with the drive both freshly erased and empty, and after filling the drive with sequential writes.
The Intel Optane SSD 900P doesn't come in first place for overall data rate on the Light test, until the drives are filled and the average data rate of all the flash-based SSDs takes a big hit.
The average and 99th percentile latencies of the Optane SSD on the Light test are on par with the top flash-based SSDs when the test is run on an empty drive. When the drives are filled before the test, the flash-based SSDs slow down enough that the Optane SSD takes first place easily, with an especially wide margin on the 99th percentile latency.
The average read latency of the Optane SSD 900P on the Light test is merely tied for first place, when the test is run on an empty drive. When the drives are filled, the Optane SSD has half the average read latency of anything else. The write latency situation is quite different; whether or not the drives are filled, most of the top flash-based SSDs are able to fit the bursts of writes in their caches and deliver better latency than the uncached writes of the Optane SSD.
The 99th percentile read latency of the Optane SSD 900P on the Light test is tied for first place when the test is run on an empty drive, and leads by more than 60% when the drives are filled before the test. The 99th percentile write latency lags behind the top flash-based SSDs a bit, but nowhere near enough to be noticeable: the latency is still an order of magnitude lower than SATA SSDs.
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BrokenCrayons - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Yup, there's the ddriver we all know touting yet another set of unverifiable qualifications that proclaim relevant experience. From getting first pick of hard drives off the pallet at the shipyard to system security and now a decade of multiphysics simulation experience, this shamless self-promoter has done it all and is a SME in everything.It's too bad you're so transparently trying to set a new record in rigged life experiences. Shame!
ddriver - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
You make a persuasive argument :)I criticize intel, that is great, therefore I suck, regardless of how grounded that criticism is.
You criticize me, who sucks, therefore you are great, like intel, regardless of how baseless your criticism is.
I wish I had such lowly and trivially attainable goals in life as you do. That would make things so much easier. I'd basically have to cheer and clap hands at my own stupidity to feel accomplished. Must be nice...
BrokenCrayons - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
The number of times you've replied in this article alone make it clear you serve no useful purpose to the world.ddriver - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
And I guess you responding to so many of my comments if just to whine about it makes you very useful, right? LOLCheapSushi - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Wouldn't be a AnandTech article without him. I pretty sure nearly every single one has some cynicism from him.ddriver - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Go and check and come back with the results.BrokenCrayons - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
I like the Optane articles the best when it comes to ddriver. They predictably draw him out and while in the context of Optane, he's even easier to manipulate than usual.ddriver - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
Oh wow, so you are manipulating me now. You mastermind you.Good thing I come out of my troll cave so you can ride that white steed of yours into glorious battle and once again find purpose in life, heroically championing for the dummies of mediocrity :)
All hail the brave sir Dumb-a-lot.
BrokenCrayons - Friday, October 27, 2017 - link
I can tell you feel like you've lost by the way you're resorting to childish name calling.sonny73n - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link
OMG ddriver. I've stopped reading your posts after page 3, but at page 8 now I'm still seeing your rantings. You definitely have serious issues.