Conclusion

Ostensibly based on the datacentre drives released last year, Intel has shown that NVMe makes sense in a high-end consumer environment, if you can afford it.

Intel is championing the next generation of solid-state drives by promoting the NVMe transfer protocol on both add-in card and 2.5in drives.

Harnessing the benefits of the increased potential by riding on the PCIe bus with a direct connection to the processor enables the consumer and workstation SSD 750 to strut some very impressive numbers in all scenarios.

Ostensibly based on the datacentre drives released last year, Intel has shown that NVMe makes sense in a high-end consumer environment, if you can afford it. A 400GB drive is set to retail at $389 (£300) and the reviewed 1.2TB for $1,029 (£800), pushing them into the reach of deep-walleted early adopters alone.

With widespread motherboard support expected soon enabling bootable drives, NVMe-based SSDs are destined to become the norm for the enthusiast, and the Intel SSD 750 represents a fundamental shift in the speed potential of consumer SSDs.

The Good		The Bad
Excellent performance Five-year warranty NVMe works well Fast in all scenarios		Expensive

Intel SSD 750 1.2TB NVMe

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Fantastic to finally see NVMe units in review! Now hopefully other manufacturers won't be too far behind and we can get some nice competition going to bring those prices down a bit!

I watched a review of this today and was blown away at the speed. Simply epic.

Hmmm. I still prefer a standard SSD to run OS and run Games and other HDD limited programs from Ramdrives where the image is stored on good old high capacity mech drives.

As an example - it takes me 60-90s to load an 18 gig modded Skyrim image from a pair of Raid0 750GB drives, from that point load times in-game are instant to two seconds. I once benchmarked a 12GB ramdrive and got 4k read/write speeds of about 7GB/s. No SSD can compete with Ram on performance. On Price not so much, I've got 24GB in triple-channel atm with 6 dimms so anything that needs more than 18GB image is right out. Waiting for DDR3 prices to lower a bit more and then gonna grab 48GB and that should see me set for a long long while.