Intel 750 pcie SSD

[Menthol]

Just letting you know it works like a champ, stuck it in the bottom pcie slot, put the driver on a usb stick as I installed Win 7 so I needed to install the driver during installation, install went kind of slow but without any issue on bios 1401. It also came with a back plate on it un-like the models seen in the reviews so it looks better not seeing the components on the back of the card

[dsk39]

I second that. I have Intel DC P3700 and noticed too that boot time slightly longer, compared with Samsung SM951.

[The_Veterant]

dsk39 wrote:
I second that. I have Intel DC P3700 and noticed too that boot time slightly longer, compared with Samsung SM951.

Hi dsk39, have you got or now where to download the new Intel toolbox ver. 3.3.0, cause the one at intel download site is ver. 3.2.3 and this last ver. don't support the 750, the 3.3 one does. Also guy I have a question for you on your DC3700 in device manager tab under hard drive properties the write back caching option can you enable any of those options on yours, cause in my I can't, it keeps showing a message that the hard drive don't support any of those options that tick, if that is true why in the first place windows shows a tab for that, cause the NVMe controller should have the write back cahing option of its own, other wise the intel driver should recognize that and disable that option which in the other hand I think that's its what happen in my case, don't know a wild guess that I'm assuming. thanks for any info on the toolbox software.

[squawker]

Hi,

i think toolbox v.3.3.0 is not yet disponible for common users, i suppose it was used by reviewers only by means of Intel "special soft for reviewers".

Regarding hard drive properties, also for DC P3700 its not possible to activate any of options:




Some properties and softwares are only for AHCI drives and not for the new NVMe protocol, for exemple, Smart data .

Unfortunately for now 750 drive users (and DC P3X00 users) are limited to Data Center Tool, a command line tool.

Regards

[The_Veterant]

squawker wrote:
Hi,

i think toolbox v.3.3.0 is not yet disponible for common users, i suppose it was used by reviewers only by means of Intel "special soft for reviewers".

Regarding hard drive properties, also for DC P3700 its not possible to activate any of options:




Some properties and softwares are only for AHCI drives and not for the new NVMe protocol, for exemple, Smart data .

Unfortunately for now 750 drive users (and DC P3X00 users) are limited to Data Center Tool, a command line tool.

Regards

Thanks guy for the info, I have exact same message, yes you are right the toolbox for the reviewers to test but now that the technology is out and live don't you think that is wise to support users that already bought this NVMe drives, its just me that don't make sense, sorry guy and the forum community I should be posting this at Intel's web site but since we are in the subject I got a little carry out.

[dsk39]

The Veterant wrote:
Thanks guy for the info, I have exact same message, yes you are right the toolbox for the reviewers to test but now that the technology is out and live don't you think that is wise to support users that already bought this NVMe drives, its just me that don't make sense, sorry guy and the forum community I should be posting this at Intel's web site but since we are in the subject I got a little carry out.

I have seen official Intel reply - Soon™ 🙂

[squawker]

The Veterant wrote:
sorry guy and the forum community I should be posting this at Intel's web site but since we are in the subject I got a little carry out.

You're right the Intel 750 is a cliente side drive and a toolbox to manage it should have been delivered together with its launching date.

dsk39 wrote:
I have seen official Intel reply - Soon™ 🙂

i've seen too: Soon™ lol

[The_Veterant]

Thanks your guys for the replay and support, I know that I'm not along on this. TIA guys.

[randyenergy]

The great thing about NVMe is that it will allow greater performance going forward than AHCI could, especially as drives get faster.
Samsung's SM951 right now is in many consumer level workloads faster than the 750 (with initial firmware). when it comes to enterprise level workloads with multiple clients and 4K/IO consistency the 750 is faster, in part due to it's NVMe native controller.
The best thing about the 750, it does not have heat related performance degradation issues. Time for a passively cooled SM951?

[squawker]

The Samsung's SM 951 actually found (hardly) in retail for buying is an AHCI drive and it seems the NVMe drive has some issues as reported on the 2 only reviews i know about it:

- http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm951-nvme-m-2-pcie-ssd-review_162219
- http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/PCIe-SSD-Roundup-Samsung-SM951-NVMe-vs-AHCI-XP941-SSD-750-and-M...

As you have said, the 750 has an entrerprise heritage from Intel DC P3X00 series, but i suppose we are only in the begining of many new NVMe drives launching. Good for us all 🙂

[ubersonic]

For those interested I have the 400GB version running as a W8.1 boot drive with an X79 Rampage IV Gene and a 4930K, everything works fine, also spoke to another guy who's running the same setup with a Formula and a 3930K, again no issues.