While i love my p5800x, these drives are awesome for booting and general operation and "feel" incredibly responsive.

While i love my p5800x, these drives are awesome for booting and general operation and "feel" incredibly responsive.  Read Less

This drive works great as tiered storage and can noticeably improve performance.

This drive works great as tiered storage and can noticeably improve performance.  Read Less

Boot imes dropped from 30-20 seconds, the system literally never hitches at all anymore either.

Boot imes dropped from 30-20 seconds, the system literally never hitches at all anymore either.  Read Less

2 slot that is physically wired directly to the cpu, the 4k reads at qd1 are even higher to 85k.

2 slot that is physically wired directly to the cpu, the 4k reads at qd1 are even higher to 85k.  Read Less

Has nothing to do however with needing gb/$ value or the greatest sequential speeds.

Has nothing to do however with needing gb/$ value or the greatest sequential speeds.  Read Less

Whether using these on powerful workstations, servers, or a raspberry pi 5, the p1600x will almost certainly increase real-worl...  Read More

Whether using these on powerful workstations, servers, or a raspberry pi 5, the p1600x will almost certainly increase real-world performance compared to its nand competitor.  Read Less

I run them as cache drives, particularly metadata caches, to which optane is well suited.

I run them as cache drives, particularly metadata caches, to which optane is well suited.  Read Less

The random read performance is literally 4-5x higher than the best non optane ssds and it's also the only other optane that ful...  Read More

The random read performance is literally 4-5x higher than the best non optane ssds and it's also the only other optane that fully matches the multi thousand dollar p5800x in random reads.  Read Less

It's sad to see intel ruined a market leading product, from marketing it to the data center space rather than consumer space fi...  Read More

It's sad to see intel ruined a market leading product, from marketing it to the data center space rather than consumer space first, and also slow to release optane in a form that usable to the mass consumers.  Read Less