Intel Optane 905P 1.5TB SSD goes on sale for $299

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This drive was once called "the fastest SSD ever."

Intel Optane 905P
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If your workload benefits from a drive with reduced latency and high IOPS, Intel Optane 905P 1.5TB U.2 is available at an attractive price at Newegg. The 3D XPoint SSD usually costs $349, but with the new limited promo code, you're getting $50 off, making the price $299. You will need to make sure to use the promo code SSDE924. Since this is a limited offer, you should be sure that this is the drive you need to have.

With the Optane 905P, you can take advantage of lower load times than other SATA and PCIe 3.0 M.2-based drives. Over the PCIe 3.0 x4 connection, the Intel Optane 905P provides up to 2,600 MB/s of read and 2,200 MB/s of write throughput. Random read and write performance is rated at 575,000 IOPS and 550,000 IOPS, respectively.

Intel Optane 905P Series 1.5TB: now $299 at Newegg 

Intel Optane 905P Series 1.5TB: now $299 at Newegg with SSDE924 Promo code (Originally for $349)

The Intel Optane 905P PCIe 3.0 U.2 Optane SSD will give you the best possible ultra-low latency and performance for specific workloads. It has a very high write-intensive endurance rating and is backed by a five-year warranty. The ability to endure up to 27.37 petabytes of data makes it an excellent choice for any write-intensive workload.

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If your motherboard doesn't have a U.2 connector, all you need is a U.2 converter to your preferred standard. Alternatively, you can always get a PCIe x4 card for a US.2 SSD and install it in your system if you want a free expansion slot.

The drive has a five-year warranty and flaunts an endurance of 27.37 PBW (Petabytes Written). While endurance is challenging for any SSD, the Intel Optane 905P is built to last and gives the assurance needed for intensive workloads.

Roshan Ashraf Shaikh
Roshan Ashraf Shaikh
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Roshan Ashraf Shaikh has been in the Indian PC hardware community since the early 2000s and has been building PCs, contributing to many Indian tech forums, & blogs. He operated Hardware BBQ for 11 years and wrote news for eTeknix & TweakTown before joining Tom's Hardware team. Besides tech, he is interested in fighting games, movies, anime, and mechanical watches.

16 Comments Comment from the forums
  • JRStern
    It has a ton of write endurance, but can it do continuous writes or does it overheat and slow down?
    Barring that use case my understanding is Optane makes a great SSD except that since the technology doesn't stack 128 or 256 layers deep the density isn't as good as newer flash, and the production price per gigabyte is many times higher than current flash - but Intel still has a couple of warehouses of the stuff and is eager to clear them out for pennies on the dollar.
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  • Jame5
    These drives do require some kind of active cooling. They are not low power by any means. In my case I have a 905 mounted directly behind the front 120mm intake fan to ensure proper cooling.

    That being said, I would love to get my hands on one of the 5800x's for the boosted performance metrics from the newer tech and PCIe4.0.

    However, they are still stupid expensive.

    905P SSD 1.5TB = $300 on sale
    5800x SSD 1.6TB = $2800.
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  • Notton
    JRStern said:
    but can it do continuous writes or does it overheat and slow down?
    continuous
    but, it's 2,200MB/s, so very slow by today's standards.
    https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-optane-ssd-905p,5600-2.html
    Oh, and this one is a U.2 form factor, so unless your mobo has the connector for it, you'll need an adapter.
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  • rluker5
    I picked up a 1TB a year or two ago and it came with the m.2 adapter. I also have a 900p 480GB that was $600, but it has run great since 2017 and is still roughly as fast as the fastest NAND on game loading and is faster than all NAND for my OS drive.
    That being said, if the rest of your PC is fast switching from a 60hz to a 120 hz display will make a bigger difference in your felt responsiveness.
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  • thestryker
    Just as a warning for anyone kicking this around the 1.5TB model is just the bare drive without M.2 adapter. These drives are still significantly better than anything NAND based for low queue depth work, but much worse at sequential so it's all about workload.
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  • Amdlova
    Once? Still the fastest drive... unbelievable low latency. You will not it on benchmarks but on everyday task feels way polished and faster to do some of the work.
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  • bit_user
    LOL, in 2022 I bought a 400 GB P5800X and it's still sitting unused. Can't decide whether I should use it as an OS drive, or try to wait and see if prices ever go up above what I paid for it. I know I probably should just go ahead and use it, because...

    The next gen of storage devices is already coming onto the market, and they will smoke any Optane drive ever made. However, they require a platform with CXL support:
    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/worlds-first-hybrid-cxl-device-combines-flash-memory-and-dram-storage-tiering-comes-to-remote-memory-over-pcie
    I'm thinking the main reason to put DRAM and NAND in the same device is if you can use NAND as a transparent, backing store for the DRAM. So, if it has a NVMe mode, then even my Optane P5800X is already decidedly obsolete.
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  • bit_user
    Anyone who wants to risk it can find pretty good deals on the P5800X on ebay. Here's the same drive I got (except with Dell branding) for less than half what I paid:
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/285811104023
    They claim it's new.
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  • Li Ken-un
    This drive was once called "the fastest SSD ever."
    It still is, depending on what metric you are measuring. 😉

    If you are comparing to a P5800X? Even the 905P gets smoked.

    For consumers like us, the metric that matters (low latency at low queue depths) is the primary reason to buy it. The endurance is really for the professional and enterprise users, although the 905P is probably artificially gimped like the earlier M10 and 800P series to go into read-only mode no matter what after a certain amount of writes.
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  • bit_user
    Li Ken-un said:
    although the 905P is probably artificially gimped like the earlier M10 and 800P series to go into read-only mode no matter what after a certain amount of writes.
    If it goes into read-only mode after the spare blocks have been exhausted, then that's in most users' best interest. To keep writing it with no spare blocks remaining, you're risking almost certain corruption and data loss.
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