Conclusion

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With their SSD 750 series Intel has created a drive, with which they’re addressing enthusiasts mainly. Like back in the days when Intel launched the disruptive X25-M, the chip giant again manages to raise the bar and move the entire consumer market one step forward. Throughput rates in the region of 2'200 MB/s are about four times as much then what’s achievable with SATA-III, which puts these NVMe drives in a completely different league.

In terms of raw performance our test drive was able to score 1'064 MB/s sequential write and 2'156 MB/s sequential read throughput. When it comes to 4K IOPS we measured 157'500 IOPS regarding random read and 143'900 regarding random write. The performance of this drive is basically - insane, outperforming the SATA-III standard almost by a factor of four regarding sequential read. On another note we also had a look at performance with different queue depths as you can see on page 10. In case of random read performance at QD1 we see 9'200 IOPS and when it comes to random write we measured 88'000 IOPS. 

Last but not least there is the price: Intels SSD 750 with 400GB is going to set you back 329 Euro and the SSD 750 1.2TB changes owner for a whopping 892 Euro. These drives are anything but cheap, but if it is highest performance you're looking for, then there is almost no alternative these days. Apart from that we noticed that the price of both drives dropped by almost 100 Euro compared to November this year. It looks like Intel wants to push these drives in Christmas period.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 8 - Random write IOPS
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 9 - Random read IOPS
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 10 - QD1/4/8/16/32 Performance
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 11 - Conclusion
Page 6 - Random write KByte/s