While I wont argue with your experience as that is yours to keep; I on the other hand have had vastly improved gaming and work experiences with this drive and an older Intel 750 in the same form factor.
For example, Opening a vmware pro windows 10 or 8 machine on a Dell Precision workstation T5810 (and yes thats with that sloww ECC memory) the difference of running a vm on this drive vs a standard 7200 rpm drive is night and day. The vm on the spinning disk experiences massive lag and is virtually unusuable without increaseing the specs of the vm. So I can create a less resource intensive vm (ie. more vm's on one machine running at same time) with this drive than with old drives. Plus even on a single vm running scenario the performance is almost equal to a live machine.
Gaming: Running the files ie. loading the games from this drive (as boot or installed as storage) Starcraft 2 loads twice as fast ie. no lag perceived. WOWarships loads faster by far, Eve Online easily three times faster loading into servers. I could go on but there is no point, if a game is impacted by io then this drive is about as good as it gets, probably forever on your current machine until they do something faster on the platform. I base that on the experience of the "slower" Intel 750 vs the Optane. While they say they are faster benchmark wise, I cant tell the difference between the two on games and VM's. Unlike on older SSD like an 850 Samsung EVO, I can see the difference on these NVMe drives and those EVO stata drives.
If you can afford it get a machine or MB that supports this and play or work away knowing its as fast as it gets.
| Hard Drive | 280 GB Solid State Drive |
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