From time to time, PC storage seems to leap forward like a gunpowder. The read/write speed from HDD to SATA SSD opens the door to the new world, and to the NVMe PCIe SSD several times faster to kill SATA SSD.
When the relationship between CPU and SSD begins to discuss whether the PCIe channel is enough for discussion, more powerful SSDs are already ready for use. Based on 3D XPoint Intel Pentium SSD 900P (Intel Optane SSD 900P) This is an example.
Somewhat unfortunately, neither Intel nor Micron explained in detail what kind of technology 3D Xpoint is. They only tell you that 3D XPoint is not based on electronic storage, does not use transistors, and is not a resistive RAM or memristor.
However, this technology has no suspense so that the Intel AMD SSD 900P is on the top of the king. Now, it's time to verify how fast this SSD is.
It is not easy to install the 900P with the fastest hard disk. At present, there are only two kinds of interface selections for ASUS SSDs, one is the 280GB version of the U.2 interface, and the other is the need to occupy a PCIe card slot.
The two hard drives support PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4, which means that even if we plug in a PCIe 3.0 x16 graphics card on the common Z370 and Core i7 eighth-generation mainstream platforms, it would be unrealistic to free up the PCIe channel to Aotun SSDs. .
Yes, you are not mistaken. Only go straight to the Core X, at least Core i7-7800X above the X299 platform is proud of the SSD solidarity.
PCIe interface version of the 280GB and 480GB Ao Teng 900P in the appearance and even the circuit design is almost the same, supporting the seven-channel master chip respectively with 21 or 28 3D XPoint memory chips for communication, which also means 480GB version of the Ao Teng 900P In addition to more than seven memory chips, there is a part of the memory chip using a dual-core package form.
Two OptiX SSDs generate a large amount of heat during reading and writing. In a continuous pressure test, the 900P at room temperature of 24 degrees Celsius can reach 51 degrees Celsius, while the NVMe SSD of the same structure may only linger at about 38 degrees Celsius, so the two hard disks are Heat sinks are full of a sense of heavy.
For the same reason, the Optix SSD 800P with M.2 interface has the highest capacity of only 118GB, and the interface is cut in half, leaving only PCIe NVMe 3.0x2.
Red to blue indicates that the temperature is gradually increasing. The heat generated by the 900P is not small. The cool GTX 1080 can testify at the same time. Note that the Optix SSD 900P is only available in 280GB and 480GB versions. The performance is exactly the same.
The 960GB and 1.5TB versions that Intel claims appear to have been intended to be completed by the replacement of the new master 905P.
How fast is 900P in the end? It's time to take off. This is the proudest SSD 900P is the most impressive, and is the most powerful impression.
As mentioned at the beginning, the Aount 900P must play directly with Core X, and at least Core i7-7800X and above, the X299 platform. For this purpose, we deliberately moved out of the test platform. The hardware includes the Intel Core i9-7920X and the ROG Rampage VI Apex. The channel's Apacer Panther DDR4 3000 8GB x4 memory, the system uses Windows 10 64bit 1803, the specific configuration is as follows:
And also selected the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card and ASUS PA329Q 4K 10bit display for easy access to the same screen (sun out) for more information.
In order to have a more intuitive comparison of scores, we also chose a SATA SSD and an NVMe SSD as accompaniment. At this point, the speed is full and it is meaningless. The ASUS SSD is faster than the previous two. In a flash, the sentence was raised.
First read and write speeds continue to be compared by continuously writing and reading 1GB of content. The 900P has shown great advantage in the performance of each hard disk can play the best read and write speed, especially the writing speed, 900P can even lead nearly double the NVMe SSD.
The real terror of 900P lies in the IOPS and random read/write performance. It is closer to real life when it comes to relatively more fragmented files. We performed 4K, 4K QD4 and 4K QD16 read/write tests on the three hard drives at Anvil's Storage Utilities. The results are as follows.
In addition, the performance of IOPS reading and writing between 4K, 4K QD4 and 4K QD16, 900P is completely playing NVMe SSD and SATA SSD. Among them, 4K QD16 Read IOPS has reached the official 550,000 IOPS announced by Intel. Running hard drives are not even visible in the rear lights.
at the same time, The 900P's read/write response responds to the real horror of the Ao Teng. There is no opponent at all.
The overall performance of the three hard drives eventually has a large gap between the test scores. Here we use Anvil's Storage Utilities and AS SSD Benchmark respectively for comparison. The results are as follows:
Will improve the PC experience?
This is a more difficult question to answer. If there is a need for large-scale operation of fragmented files, the performance of 900P will be very prominent, but this premise will not often appear in daily use, as if it will often encounter a huge single file reading and writing.
PCMark 8 Storage, which simulates everyday reading and writing applications, is a good example. This review only includes games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Battlefield 3" loading, Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe lllustrator, and Office Word. Office Excel and Office PowerPoint read and write.
For everyday use, the ultra-high performance of the 900P does not really change the experience. The original SSD performance is sufficient.
PCMark 8 Storage explains everyday applications hard to fill up with the 900P. We also simulated daily usage habits, including 4GB Leica SL RAW file images written to the 900P, and even unable to fill the 900P due to the upper speed limit of the read media itself.
In other words, by copying and pasting 900P to run full speed storage media, only 900P copy to another 900P.
The reading bottleneck on the left side of the mechanical disk eventually limits the speed. The right side is 900P 480GB to 900P 280GB. The result can be imagined from the loading of Adobe Lightroom Classic CC photos to the loading of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 video material.
Subjectively, the gap between the NVMe SSD and the Aotek SSD 900P is not too obvious. In fact, most of the time, everyday applications are not even able to squeeze out the performance of the Autenn 900P.
Even so, the amazing performance of the 900P's IOPS is enough to make people prolong, especially as a system disk, to give the entire system performance, and the acidity of the fragmented file processing is no longer stressful.
At last:
The CPU is the stumbling block to the end. The discussion of the Intel AOpen 900P is not how fast it is. It is how many streets are thrown away from the opponent. The real black technology is this way.
Of course, the premise of high performance is that you have to accept Intel's official price of 2999 yuan 280GB and 4999 yuan 480GB, this is currently a far higher price of other family consumer flagship solid state drives.
At the same time, if you need to play the full performance of the Aoyu SSD 900P, you also need a high-profile Core X platform, leaving the PCIe channel for the 900P, otherwise you will not be able to use all the performance of the hard disk. If the CPU is too weak, it will even have a direct impact. Read and write performance to 900P play.
Yes, the Intel AOpen 900P seems to be a bit hypocritical. It is like a super run. The prerequisite for high speed is to have a full set of platforms, teams and funds for its service. Only a certain level of computer-level enthusiasts may be able to The Intel AOpen 900P is preferred.
But no doubt, This SSD not only spiked the current public SSDs, sealed the king in one step, but also represented the future storage trends. Intel once again proved its unshakable ambiguity with technology.
