I. Introduction
I have always heard that Intel's Optane 900P series solid state is more powerful, using special 3D XPoint technology, not only excellent life performance, but also excellent performance in terms of performance, especially 4K performance.
However, its performance in terms of price is also extremely outstanding, and the entry-level 280G capacity version is also about a thousand yuan, and if you want to experience this solid state, you still need a certain amount of financial support.
For this solid, the mushroom has always been itchy and wants to experience it. Some time ago, I finally made up my mind to get into a piece and see how it worked.
Second, Intel Optane 900P series 280G PCIe SSD out of the box
▼ Solid packaging looks very formal, a carton with the corresponding label printed on it.
▼ The SSD case is black with the word Optane in the middle.
▼ There is a color print of the product on the back of the package, and a 5-year warranty is written in the lower left corner.
▼ Open the carton, the internal protection is very geared, the solid body and accessories, are completely placed in the foam, the shock absorption effect is first-class.
▼ In addition to the solid state, there is a half-height PCIe bezel and a manual inside the package.
Third, Intel Optane 900P series 280G PCIe SSD appearance
▼ The appearance of the SSD is very beautiful, all metal material, the front is all black.
▼ There is a label with a surface brushing in the middle of the front of the SSD, and the Intel LOGO on the left side.
▼On the right is the name of the product, Optane 900P Series.
▼ The bottom is the PCIe interface, PCIe3.0 x 4, many ATX motherboards are equipped.
▼ The tail of the SSD has a hole, and the metal heat dissipation fin can be seen inside, and it is penetrated, and the air can pass directly through.
▼ Looking over from the top of the SSD, you can see that there are several storage particles on the back of the SSPCB, but they do not touch the metal backplane on the back.
▼ From the bottom of the SSD, all the main control particles and storage particles on this side are covered by thermal pads, which are connected to the front heat sink to assist in heat dissipation.
▼ The PCIe bezel part of the SSD has a heat dissipation grille to facilitate the passage of airflow.
▼ The back of the SSD, the metal backplane, the right side is labeled.
Fourth, Intel Optane 900P series 280G PCIe SSD installed
▼Here you are going to put the SSD into the chassis and experience the speed.
▼ Here the SSD is directly installed on the bottom of a PCIe slot, which happens to be X4.
▼ Under normal installation, the size of the SSD is still very small, only half high.
▼ Then install the graphics card, the graphics card is the RTX3070Ti HOF Pro graphics card, the fan cover of the graphics card is pure white, it looks beautiful.
▼ This graphics card of Yingchi is a three-slot card, and in the case of default horizontal installation, it is necessary to install a graphics card bracket at the end of the graphics card. In addition, this three-slot card will directly block a PCIe x 4 slot in the middle, if you want to use the middle PCIe slot, there is a high probability that you need to use the adapter cable.
▼ The power supply is Antick's HCG850 gold medal full module power supply, this power supply is still quite good, all-Japan capacitors, 80Plus gold certification, ten years of new warranty, use it very assured, energy-saving and stable.
▼In addition, the length of the power supply is only 14cm, and the 12cm cooling fan on the side directly occupies most of the space on the side of the power supply. The length of the power supply is excellent, and the daily installation compatibility performance will be good.
▼ Power supply tail, in addition to the common power interface and switch, there is also a fan operation mode selection button, you can switch between temperature control and silence two modes, according to personal needs to choose.
▼The power supply is fixed, and the power supply lines of each part are plugged in by hand.
▼ The chassis is MSI's Blade 100R, the power compartment of this chassis adopts a separate, down-mounted design, and there is an opening on the side of the power compartment, which can display the power supply part. And this opening is not the common one that has no design for the square interface, but has a styling design, the opening is small, just enough to fully expose the model on the side of the power supply.
▼ Boot, light up at once, the whole machine effect is still very beautiful.
▼ Intel's Optane solid state has no lighting effect when it is working normally, and the indicator light is not.
▼ The motherboard uses MSI's Z690 blade Ti motherboard, the front of this motherboard is covered with a large area of silver metal material, especially the power supply part, the volume is huge, the coverage is complete, and the stable operation of the power supply part can be effectively guaranteed.
▼The MSI Z690 Blade Ti motherboard has 4 M2 interfaces, and all of them are covered with metal heat sinks, which can easily ensure the stable operation of M2 solid state every day. The South Bridge section also has a heatsink that not only has the motherboard name of EDGE, but also supports lighting effects.
▼ Heat dissipation is MSI's frost K360 water cooling, this water-cooled heat dissipation performance is still very strong, can easily suppress the 12th generation intel processor, any model.
▼ There is a screen on the front of the water cooling head, which can display various information such as GIFs, pictures, text, temperature, etc., which is both functional and playable, which is good.
▼ The cooling fan of the water cooling row supports ARGB lighting effect synchronization, which is still very good. In addition, this water cooling supports a G.I mode, which can automatically start and stop any cold exhaust fan, and has a better silent performance in standby conditions.
▼ Yingchi This RTX3070Ti HOF Pro graphics card has beautiful lighting effects on the side and front, which looks good.
▼ The front of the MSI Blade 100R chassis is still very beautiful, the front of this chassis is designed with special-shaped glass side transparency, and the interior is equipped with ARGB fans as standard, which is very beautiful when booting.
▼ Look closely, the glass side of the front is responsible for the value, and the heat dissipation grille on the side is convenient for air intake to ensure heat dissipation inside the chassis.
▼ In addition, in the upper part of the chassis power supply compartment, there is also an ARGB light strip, which looks very beautiful.
Fifth, Intel Optane 900P series 280G PCIe SSD testing
▼ New SSD, open disk management prompts you to initialize the hard disk.
▼ After initialization, the solid state is nominally 280GB capacity, and the actual usable capacity is about 260GB.
▼A simple look at the parameters, the number of times the power is turned on 3 times, very new. The interface is indeed PCIe3.0 x 4, and the NVMe protocol supports 1.0, 1.1.
▼ Simply run down the AS SSD, test file size 1GB, sequential read speed 2454MB/s, write 2341MB/s, sequential reading performance is OK. 4K read speed 265MB/s, write 228MB/s, 4K performance is very eye-catching, especially 4K read speed, the unique 200+MB/s.
▼ The test file has been increased from 1GB to 10GB, and the overall test score has hardly changed at all, which is very stable.
▼ Switch to Disk Mark software, the test file size is 1GB, sequential reading 2672MB/s, writing 2538MB/s, the score is not bad. 4K single-threaded read 305MB/s, write 257MB/s, the performance is very eye-catching, 4K read speed even more than 300MB/s, powerful.
▼ The test file has increased from 1GB to 8GB, and the overall test data performance is very stable, and even some data only has changes after the decimal point, which is super stable.
▼ Run the HD Tune file benchmark test, write, read 200GB test, the whole curve is very stable, directly is a straight line, very outrageous.
▼ Next, mushrooms fill in a little file with an SSD with an actual usable capacity of 260GB, and control the remaining space to about 200GB.
▼ Run again 200GB of read and write, the curve is also a straight curve, very, very stable, without any obvious fluctuations.
▼ Heat test, in the case of normal standby, the temperature of the SSD fluctuates around 42 ° C.
▼ In the case of running the test, the temperature of the SSD did not have any obvious change, still fluctuated around 42 ° C, when taking a screenshot, the temperature fluctuated to 43 ° C, and then went back, very stable.
6. Summary
Intel's Optane 900P series SSD is still very good, the performance and stability performance is particularly outstanding, although the mushroom is only the entry-level version of 280GB capacity, but its read, write curve is still as stable as the old dog, 4K read performance is still second to others.
Another impressive point is the control of fever. Standby 42 ° C, run the test, fluctuate to 43 ° C, and then fall back, feel as if the test is not him, the heat dissipation performance control is outrageously good.
The only thing that can be said is the sequential read speed, which is basically maintained at around 2600MB/s, which is much slower than the current 7000MB/s PCIe4.0 SSD, but that is basically the result of using SLC Cache. Intel this solid state does not have any slow inside, slow outside, directly is the full disk read and write stable 2600MB/s, unreasonable.
Thank you!
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