SM951 (first?) benchmark

[Per Hansson]

Surprise surprise: Intel's "new" NVMe based SSD 750 1.2TB is beat by the Samsung SM951 AHCI drive in all relevant consumer tests in Anandtech's review
Well, it was not a surprise for me, except it does show much better numbers than what I pieced together intitally.

But then I found this, look at the changes in the February 2015 firmware: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/239...enter_Tool_2_2_1_Release_Notes_330715-006.pdf
"Drive sub-4KB sequential write performance may be below 1MB/sec"

So there you have it, I guess the coin finally dropped down at Intel's HQ, but if this is all that was possible it's still a major letdown!
And moreso for me because I'm not holding my breath that the Intel 910 will get the same update

There is another fun tidbit in the same changelog, but for the S3500/S3700 drives: "Support for both 512B and 4KB physical sector size"
-It's almost like Intel is watching this thread

There is some good news though: It appears that a NVMe variant of the SM951 does exist! Be on the lookout for model number: MZVPV256HDGL-00000 for the 256GB variant.