Intel SSD 660p

For as long as solid state drives have been a thing, Intel has been known for making some of the highest quality SSDs on the market. However, this usually came with a pretty hefty premium, like the 750 series when they first launched. Then, in August of...

If you have held off on switching over to NVMe solid-state storage due to the associated costs, times are certainly changing. This week Intel introduced their 660p SSD series that yields 512GB of NVMe storage for $99 USD or 1TB for $200 USD.The Intel...

As the first SSD with QLC NAND to hit our testbed, the Intel SSD 660p provides much-awaited hard facts to settle the rumors and worries surrounding QLC NAND. With only a short time to review the drive we haven't had time to do much about measuring the...

It's been ages since we reviewed a new client 2.5" HDD, but last time we did, the 2TB drive posted 4K random read IOPS of a little under 100, where we're looking at 60,000 with the 660p. And while the sequential tests we run today aren't exactly the same as they were with the HDDs, the 660p puts up large block sequential reads of 225MB/s and writes of 77MB/s where the HDD saw about 115MB/s and 110 MB/s respectively. So in terms of the market Intel is looking to address with the 660p, they hit the target successfully. The 660p is designed to fill a need at the mobile bulk storage end of the spectrum and continues the attack on 2.5" HDDs, who's days are clearly numbered.

Intel's SSD 660p is a bit of shock to the system. Not only is this NVMe drive the first Quad-Level Cell (QLC/4-bit) SSD on the market, which portends larger-capacity offerings, it's faster during everyday use, and far cheaper—$200 for 1TB—than even the...

QLC NAND Flash has arrived and Intel is the first company to put a 4-bit, quad-level cell drive in our hands for testing. This is a great thing for consumers as this will help lower SSD prices and allow the introduction of more terrabyte-SSDs for the...

Intel has planted the QLC flag and has shown it to be good enough to displace TLC for most typical PC users. While QLC writes are slower than prior methods, the impact is effectively mitigated by the use of a large dynamic SLC cache. The SM2263 is...