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The SSD market can seem overwhelming at first glance. Each product claims to be the fastest with advanced technologies that leave the competition in the dust. There's a lot of marketing fluff and artificial numbers thrown around, though ultimately it's a...
Many of the common storage related tasks didn't seem to be overly affected by which drive from this round up they were run on. As anticipated, Optane drives and second-generation NVMe SSDs are the top players in the market offering a considerable performa...
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With their new Optane drives, Intel is introducing potential competition for classic NAND SSDs. The Optane SSD 800P is the manufacturer's first drive for consumers with enough space to store an entire operating system and all the user's programs. In our...
In principle, Intel is once more putting the potential of their 3D XPoint technology on display. But that "once more" is precisely the problem with the Optane 800P— the technology offers a high level of data consistency and unrivaled data transfer speeds...
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Ten times the data density, 1,000 times faster, 1,000 times better endurance. All of this and more Intel claimed three years ago for its revolutionary 3D XPoint non-volatile memory tech, now branded Optane. Those claims were made in comparison to the nonv...
While relatively affordable for an Optane drive, It boasts poor sequential performance...
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Last month Intel launched the Optane SSD 800P series as a step below the ultra-fast Optane 900P solid-state drives but still a big step ahead of other SSD options like the Intel 760p series. Here are our first Linux performance benchmarks of the Optane 80...
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Intel's first Optane products hit the market almost a year ago, putting the much-awaited 3D XPoint memory in the hands of consumers. Today, Intel broadens that family with the Optane SSD 800p, pushing the Optane brand closer to the mainstream.The new Opta...
The Optane SSD 800p is the closest that Intel has come to offering a 3D XPoint-based product for the mainstream consumer market. Unlike the Optane Memory M.2, the 800p is available in capacities that allow it to be used as ordinary storage. Unlike the pre...
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Intel's Optane storage technology, unveiled last year, offers lightning-fast memory and hard drive options for both enterprise users and enthusiasts building their own PCs. The latest addition to the Optane family is the 800P SSD ($129), which finally bri...
Blistering performance for everyday computing tasks, Convenient M.2 form factor...
Limited capacity, Expensive...
The Intel Optane SSD 800P brings lightning-fast boot times and excellent everyday performance to the form factor, making it a top choice for enthusiasts building cutting-edge PCs...
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Intel has wanted a 3D XPoint to go 'mainstream' for some time now. Their last big mainstream part, the X25-M, launched 10 years ago. It was available in relatively small capacities of 80GB and 160GB, but it brought about incredible performance at a time...
Outstanding responsiveness (low QD random performance), Highest capacity Optane in an M.2 form factor to date...
Price is very high (see below), Performance is held back by PCIe 3.0 x2 interface, Capacities are smaller than many power users would desire...
ConclusionPROSOutstanding responsiveness (low QD random performance).Highest capacity Optane in an M.2 form factor to date.CONSPrice is very high (see below).Performance is held back by PCIe 3.0 x2 interface.Capacities are smaller than many power users wo...
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Intel's Optane SSD 800P, like previous Optane products, boasts best-in-class longevity and very fast random access. But the rest of its performance numbers are mundane at best, it's only available in two very small capacities, and the price is, ahem, up t...
Fast with non-queued small file reads, Outstanding longevity...
Slow sustained writes for an NVMe drive, Four times the cost of the NAND-based competition...
In spite of its high price, the previously reviewed 900P, with its stellar performance and virtual lifetime guarantee, is a tempting buy for enthusiasts. The 800P, on the other hand, is most decidedly not. In pricey RAID combinations, its longevity might...
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Intel has finally launched an Optane SSD for the mainstream market, the Intel Optane SSD 800P. The Intel Optane SSD 800P series is available as M.2 2280 single-sided ‘gumsticks' that use the PCIe 3.0 x2 interface. Only two capacities are available, so you...
The Intel Optane SSD 800P series offers impressive performance and does not require a custom Windows driver. At first we liked that, but then we found out that you can't change the Windows cache buffer settings for the Intel Optane SSD 800P series, so it...
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Intel is launching its latest Optane-branded family of solid state drives today, the Intel Optane SSD 800P. Unlike the Intel Optane Memory devices, which accelerate hybrid storage configurations through intelligent data caching, or the Optane SSD 900P tha...
Strong Performance Where It Matters Most, Extreme Endurance, M.2 Form Factors...
Pricey, Relatively Low Capacities (For Now)...
by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 08, 2018Intel Optane SSD 800P Review: A Speedy M.2 Solid State Drive With 3D XPoint For The MassesArticle IndexIntel Optane SSD 800P - All You Need To Know What Makes Intel Optane So Special? Intel Optane SSD 800P - T...
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proclockers.com Updated:
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The PC world is no stranger to ground-breaking, revolutionary memory announcements. They come along every so often promising order of magnitude increases in speed, capacity, and so on. The few that actually materialize into a physical product are often la...
Intel Optane or 3D XPoint is one of those rare gems that was announced and actually turned into something worthwhile. We were impressed with the real-world performance of the first round of memory modules, but it left us wanting to go entirely Optane and...
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Intel's 3D Xpoint memory technology has been on the market for almost a year now, but mainstream builders have yet to see an Optane product they can really sink their teeth into. Intel's 16-GB and 32-GB Optane Memory accelerators carved out a new niche by...
Intel's Optane SSD 800P breaks new ground in our storage test results. Never before have we seen such breathtaking random response times. Nor have we seen a drive stubbornly cling to its peak random-write speeds while writing its entire capacity. The 800...
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The Optane 800P is Intel's latest storage product for end users. This new M.2 NVMe SSD is equipped with 3D XPoint memory and storage controllers and is designed for fast application loading, RAID configurations, and fast boot for mobile and desktop platfo...
The Intel 800P is a cost-effective, and extremely low latency drive for users of applications that demand such low latency...
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And then there is Intel Optane. Optane takes things a step further. Flash memory of traditional SSDs has an ‘Achilles Heel', in that, NAND flash memory hits a point under constant use where it doesn't have the ability to recover, and performance drops sig...
SharetweetREPORT SUMMARY AND FINAL THOUGHTSThe strength of Intel XPoint memory media cannot be shown any better at the consumer level than through the products Intel has introduced since the distribution of XPoint got the go ahead. We started with Intel O...
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Intel's 800P is the first bootable Optane SSD in the M.2 form factor, so now you can install a small SSD that should deliver big performance.Intel's first true consumer-focused Optane-powered SSD is plug-and-play and works as a standard boot drive. In...
Higher capacity, but still a small SSD, Incredible random read performance...
Low capacity, Expensive, Degraded performance possible under heavy workloads...
The Optane SSD 800P 118GB is the largest 8-series product, but it still lacks the capacity to entice most enthusiasts. The performance is lower than we expected. Combined low capacity and lower-than-expected performance mean we will leave this one on...
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