We have not posted a deal in a long time, but this is an awesome deal. The Intel Optane 905P 1.5TB is down to only $299. While these are normally $349, which is also a great deal, they are now down to $299 each (Affiliate Link.)
Intel Optane 905P 1.5TB On Sale for Only $299
The deal on Newegg is $50 off, and you can buy quantity. At $299, these are awesome drives.
We looked at the Optane 905P many years ago in 2018. These are older PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe devices that use a 2.5″ U.2 form factor. Back in 2018, the 1.5TB drives were so expensive that we could not afford such large capacities.
Still, since these are using 3D XPoint instead of NAND, they offer absolutely awesome performance in 4K random workloads at low queue depths. They can hit up to just over 500K 4K random read/ random write. Given that, they are great for databases, ZFS ZIL devices and so forth.
Although the industry has many new SLC NAND SSDs that are trying to take the mantle, really they are trying to offer a replacement drive since Optane is no more. We covered this in Glorious Complexity of Intel Optane DIMMs and Micron Exiting 3D XPoint
Final Words
This is a great deal. Of course, if you need higher capacity, then 1.5TB will not cut it. 1.5TB is fairly small for a modern SSD, but these are from a different era. If you need a M.2 or E1.S SSD, then this is the wrong option. Still, for a drive with over 27PB of rated endurance on the 1.5TB model and great low queue depth performance, this is a great deal on Newegg (Affiliate Link).
If you want to learn more, we have a deal thread in our Great Deals forum.
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27PBW? That’s nothing these days… Gigabyte has one that does… 219PBW… And I don’t think it is SLC…
https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/SSD/AI100E2TB/sp#sp
Too bad these can’t be had outside of the US (or at least not my neck of the woods, I checked..) . Would love to fill up a few slots on machines for databases with these!
I would hope in 6 years the industry could increase its PBW. These intel were being sold in 2018. Can you even purchase the Gigabyte today? Until its shipped/tested its all marketing BS by a company who isn’t exactly known for making storage devices.
Also, that gigabyte drive isn’t marketed as an enterprise drive – does it have PLP? DRAM cache? Also, what is the latency on that Gigabyte? Who makes the controller and NAND? I don’t see that listed anywhere yet.
If you have the right use case, these Intel are pretty bad ass, even for their age. PBW only matters if you can write that amount of data before the 5 year warranty runs out. Even then, until this ships its all smoke and mirrors.
@Desmond / @Enriquo, it’s pseudo-SLC (one bit out of four, with extreme over provisioning):
Source: https://www.computerbase.de/2024-06/ssd-mit-extrem-hohen-tbw-219-000-terabyte-schreiben-bis-zum-garantieverlust/
– “The controller is the Phison E18 and the NAND flash is TLC NAND of the BiCS5 type from Kioxia. However, this is operated in pseudo-SLC mode (pSLC) with only 1 bit instead of 3 bits per cell. The memory chips have a total storage volume of 4 TB or 8 TB, i.e. four times the usable capacity. The pSLC mode reduces the usable volume to a third, the rest is additional reserve memory.”.
tried to find the Gigabyte … using their “buy” links. no luck.
I’ve a 905P. For about 2 yearrs now. Love it. However, for higher capacity check out PM9A3 (8TB). If you get it used I strongly endorse RAID 10.