Bought new INTEL 1.5Tb SSD for 400$ - PCI SSD for my new PC

[Ruru]

because it uses PCI express and not m2

M.2 NVMe uses exactly PCIe.

 

[Knight47]

$400 for a 1.5TB 7years old ssd without warranty is a lot.

You could have bought a 4TB 990 Pro, SN850X or KC3000 with 5years of warranty for a lot less and use this passive adapter.

 

[A Computer Guy]

some Intel PCI SSD

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Welcome to the Intel Optane club.

 

[Timbaloo]

It's a great unit, consider the RDN4K Q1T1 read value and compare it to ZOMG HIGH SPEED PCIE5 SSDs. That's practical performance vs. circlejerks/second performance.

 

[Shrek]

I run an OPTANE SSD P1600X Series 118GB M.2 as a boot drive and am thrilled with it and have no worries about paging wearing out the drive.

 

[ir_cow]

The original warranty was 1.5TB writes a day for 5 years and still have a working drive. The endurance is in the Pedabytes.

That is why optane is so expensive. Also why Intel dropped it. Not high enough adoption.

 

[Toss]

The original warranty was 1.5TB writes a day for 5 years and still have a working drive. The endurance is in the Pedabytes.

That is why optane is so expensive. Also why Intel dropped it. Not high enough adoption.

it's 90 TB writes per day for 5 years or 160 Petabytes.

$400 for a 1.5TB 7years old ssd without warranty is a lot.

You could have bought a 4TB 990 Pro, SN850X or KC3000 with 5years of warranty for a lot less and use this passive adapter.

I don't like m2 form factor, they are small and overheat a lot. Have one, always 60C, too close so they get heated by GPU n CPU, never again.

I use SATA 4 TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD's, which has no speed drop ever for my files n torrents

 

[Selaya]

The original warranty was 1.5TB writes a day for 5 years and still have a working drive. The endurance is in the Pedabytes.

That is why optane is so expensive. Also why Intel dropped it. Not high enough adoption.

its not dropped, just put on a backburner bc of patent lawsuit issues

There Is Nothing Wrong With Optane And 3D Xpoint (NASDAQ:INTC)

Both Intel and Micron have dropped their pursuit of 3D XPoint / Optane. There is nothing wrong with the well-received technology itself. Read more here.

seekingalpha.com

 

[anonuser57]

On the topic of whether you got scammed it's sort of a weird situation. On the one hand I get the feeling that the seller was trying to get you to buy something that makes no sense for you to buy. On the other hand that isn't that bad of a price for that SSD. You probably won't see any benefit using that drive over a cheap 4tb nvme drive and you can find those for $200.

 

[nageme]

its not dropped, just put on a backburner bc of patent lawsuit issues

Micron quit in 2021.
Intel in 2022.

A shame, as the tech was interesting.
Not only quick random I/O and lots of write durability, but supposedly also supports 1-byte sized writes (which partially, or more, contributes to the two aforementioned properties).

 

[Jonny5isalivetm5]

Been using a baby OPtane as a boot drive since they were giving away starships in Star Citizen (still not flown it yet hehe)

 

[R0H1T]

its not dropped, just put on a backburner bc of patent lawsuit issues

Looking at that it's (almost) certainly stolen tech, can Intel not go one year without getting the shadiest chipmaker award out there

 

[Knight47]

I don't like m2 form factor, they are small and overheat a lot. Have one, always 60C, too close so they get heated by GPU n CPU, never again.

I use SATA 4 TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD's, which has no speed drop ever for my files n torrents

I heard quite the opposite. m2 drives don't need any cooler whatsoever as long the manufacturer sticker in on it. Maybe you need a Mesh case or some better case fans?
I use a NM790 for torrent/JDownloader 2 and the drive never goes above 40C, not even when running CrystalDiskMark.

 

[Toss]

I heard quite the opposite. m2 drives don't need any cooler whatsoever as long the manufacturer sticker in on it. Maybe you need a Mesh case or some better case fans?
I use a NM790 for torrent/JDownloader 2 and the drive never goes above 40C, not even when running CrystalDiskMark.

problem is that my fasterst m2 is between CPU and GPU slots, so it heats by both. Also RTX 5090 will be heat hog too. Maybe if you use it somewhere more far slot or dedicated pci board for m2 it's better, but the best slot which is the hottest...
and it's always like that. Also those gen 5 next gen SSD's heat n trottle like crazy if they go full 10 Gb/s potential.
yes they don't heat if they are not used to the fullest. My 60c m2 is working 2nd year, but it is light usage mainly.
When sequential write at full speed gen 5 SSD's gives 100 gb max at full speed then cache ends and they throttle to 2 gb/s speeds so slower than mine 2.5 which will hold 2.5 until it's death.

here is typical gen 5 SSD m2 scam with 100 gb of cache. You only get 10 GB/s for 100 GB, then only 2 GB/s until 900 GB and then last 100 GB is even 1 GB/s. Also this is variant w/o throttle. It can also throttle and drop further in hot environments.
and 2 GB is the most optimistic scenario. Samsung 990 Pro drops to 1.5 GB/s.

 

[Assimilator]

its not dropped, just put on a backburner bc of patent lawsuit issues

There Is Nothing Wrong With Optane And 3D Xpoint (NASDAQ:INTC)

Both Intel and Micron have dropped their pursuit of 3D XPoint / Optane. There is nothing wrong with the well-received technology itself. Read more here.

seekingalpha.com

As @nageme says, no, it is well and truly dead. Patent lawsuits did not kill it, economics did via insufficient demand. A good product is not always a necessary product.

Looking at that it's (almost) certainly stolen tech, can Intel not go one year without getting the shadiest chipmaker award out there

You should try actually reading the things you make stupid statements about. Then you might not make stupid statements about them.

 

[Selaya]

yet we're seeing new optane releases from intel (p5810x from 2023, for instance ...), and it's selling for ludicrous prices b4 the supply dries out in its entirety too
micron sold out their share to intel to leave them to deal w/ patent issues, who in turn sold out the fab to TI; the educated guess is that TI is continuing the manufacture of 3dxpoint and then selling them back to intel to make uh creative use of laws to circumvene patent suits.
obviously most of this is wildly unprintable that's why theres little to none reporting on this topic

the tech is definitely economically viable, there are enough use-cases that do profit from this kind of fast, durable persistent storage to warrant the current price point

 

[Assimilator]

yet we're seeing new optane releases from intel (p5810x from 2023, for instance ...)

It's 2025, not 2023.

 

[chrcoluk]

It beats my DC P4600 another enterprise class Intel SSD.

However I only paid circa £120 for 2TB. So a much better price.

 

[SPDIF]

I also have a pack of 10 Intel X-25E SATA SSD 64GB lying around here. They are small and not so fast but they have one point with even Optane can't beat; They are all 100 percent SLC NAND!
Nearly indestructible. I asked @GabrielLP14 on TPM to put them in his database, but he can't find any information on the NAND used anywhere.

I'm happy with this and my Optane and take good care of them. Those old SSD i use mainly to blow new life in old systems here i keep.

 

[Solaris17]

Way off topic now. It was a good buy be happy.