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Intel SSD 600 p series 512 GB review: NVMe announces performance, SATA prices

A half-dozen new 3D NAND-based SSD in August, Intel’s SSD-600 p series especially our attention as a more aggressive price m2 NVMe-based model consumer desktops and notebooks targeted.

With 3D TLC Flash memory developed in collaboration with micron, Intel has succeeded to keep prices in check and offers 600 p in capacities from 128 GB for $67 sequential read and write operations of up to 770 MB / s and 450 MB / s (1.8 GB / s and 560 MB / s on the 1 TB model).

While that we has come more slowly than what to M2 NVMe drives expect, remember that this series should be affordable. compared to the Samsung SSD 950 is Pro for rated 2.2 GB / s write speed coupled with 900 MB / s write for the 256 GB model and 1.5 GB / s for 512-GB version. What is however to note that here the 950 256 GB costs per $ 187.

    120-128 GB 240-256 GB 480-512 GB 960 / 1 TB
Intel SSD 600 p $67
($0.52/GB)		 $109
($0.42/GB)		 $189
($0.36/GB)		 n/a
Intel SSD 750 series [   n / a n/a $300 (400GB)
($0.75/GB)		 $610 (800GB)
($0.76/GB)
Samsung 950 Pro n/a $186
($0.72/GB)		 $315
($0.61/GB)		 n/a
Samsung 850 Pro n $123
($0.48/GB) [/a		 $250
($0.48/GB)		 $460
($0.44/GB)
Samsung SSD 850 Evo n/a $100
($0.40/GB)		 $163
($0.32/GB)		 $306
($0.29/GB)
Kingston UV400 []$41
($0.34/GB)		 $64
($0.26/GB)		 $117
($0.24/GB)		 $273
($0.28/GB)
ultimate MX300 n/a $70 (275GB)
($0.25/GB)		 $120 (525GB)
($0.22/GB)		 $250 () 1TB)
($0.24/GB)

About the same amount of money buys a 512-GB version of Intel’s 600 p. Only $0.36 per gigabyte the 600 p 512 GB looks to exceptional value, especially when you consider that the cheapest TLC SATA 2.5 “costs $0.24 per gigabyte hard drive and a good bit slower should. Not only that, but when compared to premium SATA MLC drives, such as for example the Samsung SSD 850 Pro, Intel 600 p is a lot cheaper.

Intel 600 p hitting 512 GB

As mentioned, there are four capacities to choose from, but we recommend the 128 GB model to avoid, since the cost per gigabyte that is quite high. The 256 GB and 512 GB models are very reasonably priced and we are waiting still to come, if we expect the 1TB-Modell that’s too competitive to be.

The 512GB-Modell is read and write speed of 1775 MB / s and 560 MB / s for a sequential, or valued, at 155,000 with write IOPS come during his random IOPS 128,000 read. So again, not in the same class as the much more expensive NVMe going how have Samsung 950 series Pro, Toshiba’s OCZ RD400 or even Intel’s SSD 750.

Intel has managed to even the 1TB-Modell in the form factor (2280) squeeze 80 mm, so no problem be compatibility in compact systems. All the chips placed on the front of the circuit board for the 512 GB model we have in stock and we wait to see how the 1 TB model is to be configured.

Speaking of chips on board, we find only three IMFT 3D TLC NAND Flash memory chips, the as mentioned earlier are significantly cheaper than equivalent MLC chips. After an odd number of memory chips seems pretty strange, although it makes sense here. Each TLC chip features two matrices are stacked, thus “3D NAND”. This means that each chip has a capacity of 192 GB added to total 576 GB so that room for overprovisioning and a 17.5 GB SLC cache. Also included is a 2 GB DRAM cache DDR3L-1600.

Its almost unlimited development budget thanks to Intel’s firmware has managed to avoid the mistakes that plagued other brands of SSDs. An internal Intel controller is not this drive but on the inside, as you might have guessed.

Instead the company decided to motion for a less likely candidate in Silicon. This is of course not the first time for one SSD controller Intel has outsourced as the SSD 510 wore a Marvell controller, while the SSD 520 carried out the controversial SandForce SF-2000.

And the Silicon motion controller problems are suffering not to be expected, Intel has yet one hands approach here as evidenced by the unique packaging and part number applied. For good measure, Intel has also its logo embossed, on the controller, which has been finished on top with a coated copper heat spreader, that help with heat dissipation, a common for m. 2 SSDs.

The controller meets the NVMe 1.1 specification and as such as PCIe 3.0 X 4 (4 GB / s) bandwidth available. Default is everything on offer here such as TRIM, garbage collection and s.m.a.r.t. Also included is an internal AES 256-bit hardware encryption engine, but designed in contrast to the Intel SSD Pro 6000 series for business users, accelerated eDrive or other encryption services are not supported in Windows.

All four 600 p Intel SSDs have the same five-year guarantee together with the same 72 TB TBW endurance rating, which is unusual and we generally expect the larger models have a higher rating.

As we know probably test

How to while peak i/o impressive manufacturers claim performance out of the box, can reduce this performance in the course of time. In contrast to a conventional hard drive, operating record made an SSD is a two-step process: a block of data must be deleted and then written. Of course if the drive is new and unused to delete anything, and therefore the first step can be bypassed, but this happens only once when the drive is trimmed.

Given this benchmark, we run the full HD tach several times to fill the drive before the exam. This simulates heavy use and clearly shows how performance will be affected after regular long term use.

The most drives support the TRIM function, which is designed to counteract these negative effects.

Test system specs

  • Intel Core i7 – 6700 K
  • G.Skill 32 GB (4x8GB) DDR4-3000
  • ASRock Z170 Extreme7 +
  • GeForce GTX 1080
  • Silverstone Strider series (700w)
  • ultimate BX100 500 GB
  • ultimate MX200 512 GB
  • G.Skill Phoenix blade PCIe SSD 480 GB
  • Intel SSD 600 p series 512 GB
  • Intel SSD 750 series 400 GB
  • Kingston HyperX savage 480 GB
  • Kingston predator PCIe SSD 480 GB
  • OCZ Trion 100 480 GB
  • OCZ vector 180 480 GB
  • Plextor PX-G512M6e 512 GB
  • Samsung SM951 512 GB
  • Samsung SM951 NVMe 256 GB
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 2 TB
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 500 GB
  • Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512 GB
  • SanDisk Extreme Pro 480 GB
  • to overcome overcome SSD370 512 GB
  • TS512GMTS800 512 GB
  • Gainward GeForce GTX 980 (6144MB)

Software

  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  • GeForce game ready driver 372.90 – WHQL

Benchmarks: file copy test

Intel 600 p matched the more expensive 400 GB 750 in our large 6 GB compressed file test.] This will far ahead of the fastest SATA SSDs and not far behind the mighty Samsung 950 Pro.

Copy program test is comprised of many small uncompressed files rich by only 1 to 5000 K in size (6104 files amounting to 2.75 GB). The performance here is very unexpected, as the 600 p is nowhere to be seen. The throughput decreased to only 159MB / s and the Intel 600 p is one of the best SSDs we’ve tested lately.

Our last file copy test used game data in a mixture of small and large, compressed and uncompressed files. The Intel returns to form in our game copy test with a throughput of 464MB / s 600 p, what’s about on par with the Kingston Raiders. The performance here is not overwhelming, but it is acceptable, since the price tag.


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