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  • IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link

    "This can address the gap between the 118GB Optane SSD 800P M.2 SSD and the 280GB 900P that is only available in U.2 or add-in card form factors."

    I'm not sure how, maybe you meant something between 280GB and 480GB 900P, because 375GB is surely greater than 280GB.

    Because Intel made 900P much cheaper than most expected, and 800P, more expensive than anyone expected, there's little room between the two.
  • DanNeely - Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - link

    It means that they can make a 2xx GB m.2 consumer drive. U.2 is more or less an enterprise form factor and Optane is expensive enough per GB that a 375gb m.2 would be too pricey for most consumers. A 200/250GB drive would split the cost difference while having enough storage capacity to be a lot more comfortable as a primary drive.
  • IntelUser2000 - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Please, Dan. I'm already aware the 900P is available in 280GB capacities, making a 250GB version pointless. The 280GB costs $389.

    The lower end 800P costs $199 for the 118GB version and has lot less sequential throughput, due to the reads being capped by PCIe x2 interface and writes being capped by having too few channels.

    Already, there's the opinion that its better to pay $389 and get the 280GB 900P because at least with 280GB it makes it a usable boot drive, while at 118GB, the 800P is quite small and you end up with lower performance to boot. If Intel made the 118GB cheaper at $149 or so it might have made much more sense on its own.
  • Zizy - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    900P has to be available in M.2 form factor to be useful for consumers, and this is what the P4801X seems to provide. We shall see if it manages to carve a niche.
  • Zan Lynx - Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - link

    900P works fine as an add-in card for desktops. Perhaps you meant "laptop users" when you said "consumers."
  • deil - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    118 GB drive is good for linux OS, no need for more and Perfect for windows pagefile :)
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  • Drazick - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    What about a U.2 Interface disk?

    Those M.2 are too limited in size and thermal performance.
  • Samus - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Since these aren't really meant for mobile, I suspect a heat spreader will be used. It'd be almost ridiculous for Intel NOT to mount a heat spreader considering the 10 watt power consumption. I put heatsinks on my old mSATA (mPCIe) drive in my desktop and it makes a huge difference.
  • IntelUser2000 - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    U.2 has been available for both the enterprises oriented P4800X and, consumer oriented 900P.

    https://ark.intel.com/products/series/97160/Intel-...
    https://ark.intel.com/products/series/123625/Intel...

    The new drives are just to be able to fit in M.2.
  • supremelaw - Sunday, April 29, 2018 - link

    Billy, Thanks! Will the new M.2 Optane use x4 PCIe 3.0 lanes instead of x2?
  • Billy Tallis - Sunday, April 29, 2018 - link

    This enterprise M.2 drive is PCIe x4, and any consumer derivative will be as well. Intel is probably not done releasing low-end/smaller Optane products based on the PCIe x2 controller used in the Optane Memory and Optane SSD 800P, so we'll have two tiers of Optane M.2 for a while, maybe indefinitely.
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