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 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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457R4LDR34DKN07 - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
No, they are 4x pcie 2.5" SFF-8639 drives here is a good article describing the differences between satae and 2.5" SFF-8639 drives:http://www.anandtech.com/show/6294/breaking-the-sa...
Qasar - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
ok.. BUT.. that's not what i asked.... will this type of drive, ie the NVMe type.. be on some other type of connection besides PCIe 4x ?? as i said :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..
cause one can quickly run out of PCIe slots, or have slots covered/blocked by other PCIe cards ... right now, for example. i have an Asus P6T and due to my 7970.. the 2nd PCIe 16 slot.. is unusable and the 3rd slot.. has a raid card in it.. on a newer board.. it may be different.. but sill SLI/Crossfire.. can quickly cover up slots ... or block them ... hence.. will NVMe type drives also be on sata express ??
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - link
right and what I told you is that 2.5" SFF-8639 is also offered. You can probably plug it into a sata express connector but you will only realize 2x pci-e 3.0 speeds IE 10gb/s.xdrol - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
It takes 5x 200 GB drives to match the performance of a 1.6 TB drive? That does not sound THAT good... Make it 8x and it's even.Lonyo - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
Now make a motherboard with 8xPCIe slots to put those drives in.hpvd - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
sorry only 7 :-(http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon...
:-)
hpvd - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
some technical data for the lower capicity models could be fund here:http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state...
maybe this is interesting to be added to the article...
huge pile of sticks - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
but can it run crysis?Homeles - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
It can run 1,000 instances of Crysis. A kilocrysis, if you will.Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - link
How is 200 uS considered low latency? What a joke. If intel had any ambitions besides playing second fiddle to apple and ARM, then they would put the SSD controller on the cpu and create a DIMM type interface for the NAND. Then they would have read latencies in the 1 to 10 uS range, and even less latency as they improve their caching techniques. It's true that you wouldnt be able to address more than a couple TB of NAND through such an interface, but it would be so blazing fast that it could be shadowed using SATA SSDs with very little perceived performance loss over the entire address space. Think big cache for NAND, call it L5 or whatnot. It would do for storage what L2 did for cpus.