Performance, Price (400GB Model), Software Package, Reliability

Price (1.2 TB Model), Capacity Selection

It's the fastest client SSD every given to the public but you need the workload to take advantage of it. Under lighter workloads the SM951 offers nearly identical performance with more available user capacity (on the 400GB model). Professional users...

Ultra-fast sequential speeds, especially for reads.

Some other drives offer higher write performance in certain workloads.

A performance king for the consumer SSD market. If your workloads demand serious read performance, Intel’s NVMe-based SSD 750 Series drives are a strong choice.

- Intel quality/design - Works well with server-grade OS - Typical SSD advantages when using as OS drive (booting, etc)

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Inexpensive, solid system disk, pairs well with cheaper, larger magnetic hard disks.

None given its positioning in the market.

- Excellent management tools & firmware utility - Works perfectly with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, plug-n-play - Consistent performance - Good price for an enterprise grade SSD

- Uses consumer grade NAND, not the 20 nm chips as used in higher end enterprise SSD's

Pros include 5 year warranty, enterprise firmware, metal casing construction, robust intel SSD "data center tool" software for performing firmware updates, LBA changes, etc. Plug-n-play with a SuperMIcro H8SCM board and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2.

Cons are that it uses cheesy 16 nm NAND like a consumer grade SSD, and has correspondingly low endurance. It's rated for just 0.3 DWPD, which is about on par with a "pro" level consumer SSD.

Excellent transfer speeds, high IOPS, low latency ; I use this drive exclusively for gaming and it's glorious. The transition from an 840 Evo to this monster is the same as transitioning from a traditional mechanical hard drive to an SSD. I notice...

A bit a Frankenstein setup. I have a cable running from the M.2 in the middle of my motherboard over to the SSD, in addition to a SATA power cable. Doesn't make for the cleanest atheistic or easiest cable management. I have a cheap $30 case so this is...

Really Fast

Price (but that will drop over time) ; Cable is too short for some cases

FREAKIN FAST

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Fast! (2GBps seq reads, 1GBps seq writes measured with AS SSD) ; High quality casing with heat sink ribbing ; Intel SSD Toolbox (utility) ; Fast

SFF-8643 Connector required ASUS Model Hyper Kit Expansion Card for my ASUS Deluxe X99 mobo ; Intel doesn't provide Win 8.1 compatible disk migration utility (used Macrium to clone)