I followed Intel's install guide to the "letter". The install took less than 10 minutes including closing up the case and W7 Pro was installing off of an ISO DVD. I have it installed on an ASUS X99-A/USB3.1 board. Pros: The 750 is the best built SSD I have ever used. If your review was found to be unhelpful by a lot of people, one of the above probably applies. Again, do you research and don't complain. Even for X99 boards, you may have to upgrade your BIOS before it will function as a boot drive. You must also know what version of BIOS for the mobo is required.
The drivers built into win 8.1, for example, will make the drive go, but you need the Intel version to make it go vroom! Do you research and don't complain.Īlso, it is not enough to check the compatibility of your mobo with the manufacturer's website.
If you are complaining about no significant boost over a standard SSD in overall performance, you likely did not go to the Intel site and load their drivers.
The drive takes one or two seconds to initialize, so no real difference in boot time. Most of cold boot time is before control is passed to the boot loader from the BIOS. Overall Review: If you are buying this to speed boot time, you are making a mistake. * Hands down the fastest SSD in the consumer market Pros: * Easy install as boot drive for win 8.1 Before you buy this SATA check when the most recent BIOS for your motherboard was released, if it's sometime in 2015 then chances are you will be able to boot from this Intel SSD, if it's older then you should definitely choose an SATA SSD instead. SATA SSDs are completely compatible with all modern BIOSes and with all disk utilities, they are also cheaper. Although this SSD has 4X the read bandwidth of an SATA SSD the difference isn't noticeable in either boot times or in application launching times. Overall Review: For server applications this is the SSD of choice however for desktop use I think SATA SSDs are a better choice. The June 2014 BIOS that was on the motherboard did not see the SSD, however when I updated the BIOS to the most recent release (June 2015) it handled it fine. I also had to update the BIOS on my Gigabyte Motherboard in order to boot from this Intel SSD. My favourite partition tool, gparted, does not support NVME so it was unable to see this drive. On Linux, gnome-disks and parted support NVME as do the installers for Fedora 22 and Scientific Linux 7.1 (RHEL 7.1 clone). Pros: I've measured the performance using both gnome-disks and sys_basher and it meets the promised read bandwidth of 2200MBytes/Second and exceeds the promised write bandwidth, I measured a write speed of 1100MB/Sec vs a promised speed of 900.įedora 22 boots in a few seconds on a Haswell iCore7 system and applications launch instantly.Ĭons: NVME is new and as such it isn't supported by all utilities and BIOSes.