Intel SSD DC P3700 Review: The PCIe SSD Transition Begins with NVMe
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 3, 2014 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Intel
- Intel SSD DC P3700
- NVMe
Mixed Read/Write Performance
Although our four corner testing is useful, many real world enterprise workloads are composed of a mixture of reads and writes. OLTP environments in particular tend to see a 70/30 split between reads and writes. The test below is conducted the same way as our 4KB random write test (1 sequential drive write, 1 4K-QD128 random drive write, then 3 minute test), but the actual test is 70% reads and 30% writes.
The results here look a lot like the 4KB random read results, but with a slightly different slope. The P3700 and Micron's P420m compete for top billing, but the P3700's superior random write performance and solid midrange queue depth random read performance ultimately give it the edge here.
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Ryan Smith - Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - link
The Revodrive 3 presents itself as a SAS device as I understand it. In any case the problem isn't that the board can't see the drive period - the ASRock system browser cheerfully identifies it as an Intel drive - it just doesn't consider it bootable. This is with the latest BIOS (3.10) BTW.To answer your second question, none of the other PCIe drives we have are bootable. The Intel 910 is explicitly non-bootable, and the Micron P420m uses a proprietary protocol.
hpvd - Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - link
many thanks for giving that much details!!hpvd - Friday, June 6, 2014 - link
just found a gerat piece of information - maybe you only need the right driver (or windows version where this is included out of the box)"NVM Express Boot Support added to Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2"
details:
http://www.nvmexpress.org/blog/nvm-express-boot-su...
hopefully this works for these devices...
Bloorf - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
Thanks for the article. I'm glad the new interface is showing good results so far. People are probably drooling for the new storage hardware options coming eventually.Rob94hawk - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
I personally would like to see results in a dedicated gaming rig.Benjam - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
I think that gaming performance is the least of your concerns with this speed monster.jimjamjamie - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
Minimal loading times and no I/O-related hitching still sounds wonderful though.TelstarTOS - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
Excellent QD1 performance is what matters for a workstation or enthusiast machine, so this is EXTREMELY promising.stevets - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
I would like to see what this could do on an ESXi host running Pernix Data's FVP. If supported, these cards could make that solution much more affordable from a hardware perspective.Qasar - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
are these types of drives only going to be on PCIe.. or are sata-express drives planned as well ?? depending on ones usage... finding a PCIe slot to put a drive like this in.. may not be possible, specially in SLI/Crossfire... add the possibility of a sound card or raid card..