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Intel 750 SSDs come in PCIe and SATA Express formats, offer lightning speeds

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If you need ultimate performance on your PC then SATA drives just don’t cut it – fast SSDs need to be hooked up to the faster PCIe bus. The new Intel 750 SSD promises read speeds of up to 2,400MB/s and writes up to 1,200MB/s.

The drive offers high performance in random reads and writes too.

Random reads can reach 440,000 IOPS while random writes go up to 290,000 IOPS. The drive comes in half-height PCIe card form factor and is based on 20nm chips. They are connected with the PC over PCIe 3.0 x4 and feature a NVMe controller.

This makes the 750 Intel’s first NVMe-based drive with a price tag that’s manageable by consumers – $390 for the 400GB version and $1,030 for the 1.2TB.

The 750 SSD drive is also available in half-length 15mm 2.5″ format. It uses the SFF-8639 connector aka SATA Express. It’s backwards compatible with SATA, but uses four lanes of PCIe 3.0 for up to 4GB/s (theoretical, closer to 3.2GB/s in real-world speed).

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