A good price for what is, on paper at least, a ridiculously fast drive. Sequential reads of up to 1,800 megabytes and sequential writes of up to 560 megabytes per second (MB/s) Note that it's the M.2 interface, so you need a compatible motherboard.
...I meant one on offer (i.e. a recommendation on a good offer).
sailo
29 Nov 161#9
This is a budget nvme drive. Much faster than sata but slower than other nvme drives. Price reflects this.
Agharta to sailo
29 Nov 16#10
It's actually slower than many SATA drives for sustained writes (this is 300GB/sec once the SLC cache is full) and in everyday usage it's not going to be noticeably faster in many cases.
nomnomnomnom
29 Nov 161#8
Cost per gig is always higher on a nvme drive....because it's not a SATA drive, so comparing them on that one thing alone is largely silly.
Don't really see the point of the 600p range. Not good enough to be an upgrade to nvme, not cheap enough to warrant not just going to a normal SATA drive / m.2 (not nvme).
AlexJames102
29 Nov 16#5
I really want a new 250GB SSD but this is just a bit overkill for me. If anyone can recommend something a bit more within a mid-tier range, I'd be grateful.
taras to AlexJames102
29 Nov 161#6
Any sata 600 ssd then ..
CHAOSEN3
29 Nov 16#4
Great deal if you're looking for a solid, reliable M.2 SSD.
Agharta to CHAOSEN3
29 Nov 16#7
Sustained write speed is ~300MB/sec which is about 10% more than you manage with SATA 2.
It's a fairly new budget consumer drive so too early to say if it's reliable just because its Intel.
LeeJS
29 Nov 162#3
Sorry, didn't spot the form factor - ignore my previous comment.
LeeJS
29 Nov 161#2
£350/tb=cold, no matter how fast.
A good deal these days is in the region of £160/tb.
smadger
28 Nov 16#1
OK, but not THAT fast. Not that you'd notice any difference anyway,
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Looking at its performance though...it's not a great nvme drive: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10850/the-intel-ssd-600p-512gb-review/10 - and that's the 512gb version.
Don't really see the point of the 600p range. Not good enough to be an upgrade to nvme, not cheap enough to warrant not just going to a normal SATA drive / m.2 (not nvme).
It's a fairly new budget consumer drive so too early to say if it's reliable just because its Intel.
A good deal these days is in the region of £160/tb.