Will SPCR ever review these SSDs anytime soon?

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As in subject: these seem somehow interesting, so let's hope someone here will review them near in the future (I'd be interested in real temp/throttling profile and boot times too).

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... eries.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... ctory=1157

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First serious review I've read: not a Samsung SM961, not an Intel 750, not that bad also.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/I ... st-M2-NVMe

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Looks like Intel needs to work on the SLC/TLC handoff. Might be great for light workloads, but not ready for primetime if sustained load goes past the SLC buffer. Still very curious as to the controller temp and load power.

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Looks like Intel needs to work on the SLC/TLC handoff.

According to PcPer the issue might be more apparent than real, particularly with the 512Gb model (with 2x the number of dies, you'd have to write a good 16GB chunk at a >300MB/s rate to saturate that cache, something not easily seen on desktops).

Said that, it's still a budget SSD, but NVME/PCIe: the first of its kind (that's why I find it interesting, despite the cut corners).

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As in subject: these seem somehow interesting, so let's hope someone here will review them near in the future

One possible reason why they wouldn't be: All SSD's are practically silent so no need for SPCR's hemianechoic chamber for testing them. Other sites focussed on storage can better review storage devices as well.

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Other sites focussed on storage can better review storage devices as well.

Well, I feel that Mike and Lawrence are not reviewing several things since a while (PSUs anyone?), I guess they're somehow giving it up...

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I am curious about the power consumption of these drives. With all the apparent problems with regards to heat/throttling, reducing power draw should be an important factor. Especially considering it will often be used in laptops.

Anyway Intel is saying typical power consumption should be around 100mw (what does typical constitute?) whereas the Samsung 960 EVO has a power draw of over 7W at max load. I would be interested to know how the two compare. We already know about the difference in price and performance.

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Another interesting test from Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 56gb&num=1