sThe Intel SSD DC S3700 is a state of the art SATA based Enterprise drive.It offers an excellent balance of performance together with endurance, data reliability, and data integrity features.I understand Intel’s recommended channel pricing for the...
Intel has pushed out many SSDs over the years, and unlike many manufacturers, they have never stopped heavily pushing SSD in the enterprise. They did so with their very first push of the X25-M / X25-E, where they seemingly came out of nowhere and...
Intel's DC S3700 is the most interesting SSD we've seen in quite some time. Moving away from the race to deliver the highest sequential speeds and the maximum number of IOPs, the drive delivers a level of consistency that was previously unheard of on a...
With the recent announcement of the SSD DC S3700, Intel is firmly targeting enterprise customers with something not normally seen on spec sheets: performance consistency. Will their latest offering live up to expectations, or fall short? Lets find...
Lets preface this conclusion by stating the obvious first: under no circumstance is the DC S3700 series designed to be used in a home environment. These are solely targeted towards the datacenter and enterprise markets and they absolutely excel in...
Intel recently sent over a pair of its SSD DC S3700 drives at 200 and 800 GB. Our esteemed storage expert, Drew Riley, just put the finishing touches on his in-depth evaluation, which includes comprehensive consistency analysis, lots of performance...
In an enterprise-class market which is defined by relatively long product cycles and an adherence to proven technology, Intels DC S3700 series is something of a revelation. It addresses the sometimes harsh criticisms leveled at previous generations...
Intel definitely delivers on its promise with the DC S3700, an SSD with good, but above all, very consistent and reliable performance. The latest high-end consumer SSDs may be faster in most benchmarks, but when we tested the SSDs over a 15-minute...
Last year, all of the Intel SSDs we reviewed used third party controllers supplied by either Marvell or LSI (SandForce). Which is why the Intel SSD DC S3700 we're reviewing today is so interesting – rather than continue to use third party controllers (as...
The Intel DC S3700 series SSD offered very good performance throughout our testing. These drives are not meant to outpace all others in terms of large sequential transfers and our tests proved that, as the DC S3700s trailed the LSI SandForce-based...
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