Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Intel Optane SSD 905P Series (960GB) (AIC PCIe x 4 3D XPoint)

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2020

I love these Optane drives. Yes, they are expensive. In return they have ridiculously low latencies and provide the best computer experience you will ever have.

These drives do not have an extremely high transfer speed. In some situations you might be better served by a PCIe Gen4 SSD with a 6 GBps transfer. These 4x PCIe3 Optane drives top out at a read and write speed of about 2 GBps.

But most computer storage operations go like this: Read block 27. Look at it, find the next location. Read block 992. Look it it. Read block 10,221. Etc. Optane is very, very good at this. Reading many small files, doing database index lookups, etc.

I use mine in a software development workstation. The many small files in a git repository, the many small header files of a C++ build and the many small .o files needed to link a C++ application work great in an Optane drive.

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Casey

4K is the spec that matters most often

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2020

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These things are seriously fast where it counts. Other mainstream SSDs spout huge peak sequential reads and writes but people don't realize is you almost never utilize that. Its the small random reads and writes that your computer utilizes a vast majority of the time and these Optane drives are insane in that department. The other super exciting perk to these drives is the absolutely mind boggling endurance of these drives. Basically put, no amount of gaming will kill the endurance of these.q The capacitors and other components are far more likely to fail first... after like 10+ years of hard daily use. Gone are the days of HDDs being more reliable, 3D Xpoint is FAR better in every aspect other than $/GB.

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Alex O.

VERY fast performance as a Windows O/S drive

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020

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Amazon's review ratings ask for scores on "thickness" and "sheerness"; the mind boggles as to why these factors would be important. However, the drive's performance is outstanding. Its raw sequential read/write performance is ok, but ignores the fastest-in-the-world performance for small 4K reads/writes. Windows and other OSes do a lot of these small reads and writes. The drive makes Windows feel much faster, more responsive, and is transformative. Using this drive for an Adobe Lightroom catalog is one example of stunning performance improvement. The only downside is the relatively high cost per GB.

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Robert Bouillon

50% faster than my 960 Pro

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018

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The product works flawlessly, hooked into an X99 ASUS Rampage V paired with a 7960X. I write software, and builds are really random I/O heavy workloads, and ANYTHING you can do to speed up a C++ build helps.

The only place I really notice the performance is when I reboot Windows once every 3 or 4 months and I can instantly start using my PC no matter how much crap is loading in the background. I'm sure it helps my builds, as well, but I never benchmarked them, and I find comfort knowing that there's probably not much more I can do to make them go faster.

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HP66

Great for Lightroom users

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019

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Triples how quick large raw file images load (6secs to about 2secs) over a standard SATA SSD.
The library populates almost instantly.
A review in a computer magazine stated that it has an extremely high endurance rating over other budget models so that would add to the higher cost as well.

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P. Fulbright

The king, in speed and pricetag...

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018

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No surprises with this drive, compared to the 900P the only reason to go 905P is the capacity, the speed increase just isn't THAT big. But why go Optane at all? Speed, plain and simple. this isn't going to do a lot for your gaming rig (though it does make a decent difference in some games), but if you are running a lot of VM's, a lot of DB load, anything that starts climbing the queue depth there just isn't any real competition.

But at this pricetag...if IOPS and "queue depth" don't mean anything to you...stick with Samsung 970 EVO and Pro series drives.

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