NVMe SSD Roundup 2018: Intel Optane, WD Black and Samsung 970 Evo/Pro Top Players, Top Performance, Top Dollar By William Gayde July 12, 2018 . Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.

That leads us to the fact that your NVMe SSD is likely already fast enough inside your PC. If it's a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 SSD, you're pushing speeds of 7,000 MB/s or more, that's 7 GB/s.

Design and specs. When a company markets pricey entities such as the Optane SSD 900P ($389 for 280GB or $599 for 480GB) to the enthusiast market, looks can help close the deal.Not that Intel’s ...

Optane SSD vs Traditional NVMe drives. On the surface, the Intel 900p is an NVMe drive like so many other drives on the market. The difference is under the hood and that’s the 3D XPoint NAND.

Intel’s Optane SSD 905P is a follow-on to the Intel Optane SSD 900P we reviewed earlier this year. If you read that review, you already know about the ridiculously long claimed lifespan of Intel ...

I tested how optane caching can affect NVME drives on the Ryzen platform. Interesting, but the price of Optane is going to have to halve before it ends-up on one of my parts lists. All prices 1 ...

There has never been an NVMe SSD like the Optane Memory H10. The QLC portion is closest to the M.2 fingers, and the Optane portion rests at the back of the drive.

Crucial P510 NVMe SSD review; ... Some motherboards only include a single M.2 slot, which precludes using Optane Memory alongside an M.2 NVMe SSD.

High-end consumer SSD and Optane Memory caching technology is a bit more specious. ... Our favorite 8 TB NVMe SSD is now cheaper than picking up two 4 TB drives, at only ¢7 per gigabyte.

The latest model is a hybrid, combining the company's own 670p NVMe SSD with 32GB of Optane memory to offer file access faster than the 670p's standalone 3,500MB/s sequential read speed. The H20 ...

On the bench today, we have Patriot's 2TB Viper VP4100 M.2 x2280 Gen4 x4 Phison E16-based NVMe SSD. Let's take a close look at how it compares with the most current 2TB Gen3 x4 M.2 SSDs when ...