Intel to Offer Affordable 600p NVMe SSDs

from where you get those rated endurance ?

if the endurance that low, it seems they using their lowest grade chip
the good things they still provide 5years warranty for it...

not sure if affordable = value...
intel product has been always expensive = high quality/reliability which turn to better value in long term
but this one, its more like micron typical product

 

72TBW isn't bad at all for a consumer grade product. The drive will be obsolete long before it fails due to write cycles. I'd venture to say the average consumer is writing less than 5TB per year.....giving this drive a 14.4 year life span. How many people keep a drive that long? Most of us don't keep a harddrive longer than 5 years. There's a higher risk of circuit failure than there is NAND failure during it's usable life span.

 

From Intel...

http://ark.intel.com/products/94926/Intel-SSD-600p-Series-1_0TB-M_2-80mm-PCIe-3_0-x4-3D1-TLC
Intel® 600p 1 TB
Endurance Rating (Lifetime Writes) 72 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)1.6 million hours
Warranty Period 5 yrs

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/ssd-750-spec.pdf
Intel® 750 Series
Endurance Rating (Lifetime Writes) 127 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)1.2 million hours
Warranty Period 5 yrs

http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/950pro.html
Samsung 950 Pro 256GB 200 TBW
Samsung 950 Pro 512GB 400 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) 1.5 million hours
Warranty Period 5 yrs

https://ocz.com/us/ssd/rd400-ssd
OCZ RD400 128GB 74 TBW
OCZ RD400 256GB 148 TBW
OCZ RD400 512GB 296 TBW
OCZ RD400 1TB 592 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) 1.5 million hours
Warranty Period 5 yrs

http://hkftp.zotac.com/External/SSD/ZTSSD-PG3-480G-GE/brochure/ZTSSD-PG3-480G-GE.pdf
ZOTAC SONIX PCIE 480GB 698 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) 2 million hours
Warranty Period 3 yrs

http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/SHPM2280P2_en.pdf
Kingston Predator 240GB 415 TBW
Kingston Predator 480GB 882 TBW
Kingston Predator 960GB 1600 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) 1 million hours
Warranty Period 3 yrs

 

You can't just post the numbers and compare. You have to think.

I have an Intel X25-M 160GB drive that I bought new in 2009 for $550 and it's seen daily use. I'd call it average use, no video or photo editing. I have 18.3TB lifetime host writes on the drive.

72TB is more than enough for the average Joe Shmoe on this site that plays games and browses the internet. It would only be a concern if your job entails video/photo/3D editing. Speeds are good too, removing the SATA bottleneck is big. Writing that 1TB drive 72 times over to completion just won't happen, it will probably die first and I'd be surprised if its lifespan is as long as this X25-M.

This drive is a no brainer for everyone except heavy content creators who do it for their day job.

 

how about black pcb