Apart from Intels Workstation tuned 750 drives and the none existent SM951 NVMe variant (in retail anyway)
The other contenders are dragging their heels. (or having trouble writing the firmware)
Samsung SM951 NVMe M2 OEM drive, rumoured to be making it to retail, but we are still waiting.
HP Z turbo Drive G2 (rebranded SM951 on a PCIe add in card) When i queried HP if they had added power loss protection due to the extra real estate available on the daughter card their answer was no, so expect this to be an overpriced SM951 for HP workstations.
Intel 750 Series (tuned for high queue depths, SM951 is better at client workloads and uses less power to do it)
Marvell 88SS1093 (PCIe 3.0 x4) controller, 2,900Mbps read (CES)
Phison PS5007-e7 (PCIe 3.0 x4) controller demoed at Computex The controller provides sequential read/write up to 2,500/1,200 MBps and 300,000/250,000 random read/write IOPS (Gskill Phoenix Blade X)
Marvell and Phison appear to have some solid contenders to compete with Samsung and Intel, Hopefully the wait will not be too much longer.
The other contenders are dragging their heels. (or having trouble writing the firmware)
Samsung SM951 NVMe M2 OEM drive, rumoured to be making it to retail, but we are still waiting.
HP Z turbo Drive G2 (rebranded SM951 on a PCIe add in card) When i queried HP if they had added power loss protection due to the extra real estate available on the daughter card their answer was no, so expect this to be an overpriced SM951 for HP workstations.
Intel 750 Series (tuned for high queue depths, SM951 is better at client workloads and uses less power to do it)
Marvell 88SS1093 (PCIe 3.0 x4) controller, 2,900Mbps read (CES)
Phison PS5007-e7 (PCIe 3.0 x4) controller demoed at Computex The controller provides sequential read/write up to 2,500/1,200 MBps and 300,000/250,000 random read/write IOPS (Gskill Phoenix Blade X)
Marvell and Phison appear to have some solid contenders to compete with Samsung and Intel, Hopefully the wait will not be too much longer.
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