Dutch store puts on pre-sale the new Intel Optane SSD 900p units, which will arrive with a PCIe 4.0 connection interface and backward compatibility with PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 2.0 ports.

The Optane units developed by Intel have not yet shown their full potential. These units are currently limited to data centers and little else. Unfortunately, the Intel Optane drives that have hit the mainstream market are only installable drives as cache drives and only on Kaby Lake motherboards onwards. These units compete against SSDs and M.2 SSD / PCI, so it is not worth buying these units and installing them in the system, since their usefulness is limited.

There has been talk for a few weeks about the Intel Optane 900p SSD units, of which quite little is known and that will still take some time to arrive. These units have as their main feature, the use of the PCIe 4.0 interface. This information comes from the Dutch media HWI, who have seen these units in the Centralpoint store, in reserve and that they will begin to be distributed officially, tomorrow. These Optane 900p units are in two versions, one using a U.2 connection with an optional M.2 to U2 converter and on PCIe cards. The 240GB units will initially be launched at a price of about € 600 and the 480GB units will be around € 1000.

These new units must offer some really mind-blowing IOP rates. In addition, these are the first units compatible with PCIe 4.0 technology, something that guarantees us a bandwidth of 8GB / s and logically, as already mentioned when this technology was announced, it will be compatible with PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 2.0. We must remember that these units are based on 3D XPoint memories, which offer sequential read rates of 2.500MB / s and sequential write rates of 2.000MB / s.

Source: guru3d