Intel SSD DC P4600 NVMe PCIe Review: Low-Latency TLC Storage For The Data Center

Name: Intel SSD DC P4600
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, February 02, 2018, 12:00 PM EDT

We like PCMark 8's Storage 2.0 benchmark module for its real-world application measurement approach to testing. PCMark 8 offers a trace-based measurement of system response times under various scripted workloads of traditional client / desktop system operation. From simple application start-up performance, to data streaming from a drive in a game engine, and video and photo editing with Adobe applications, we feel comfortable that these tests reasonably illustrate the performance profile of SSDs in an end-user / consumer PC usage model, more so than a purely synthetic transfer test.

Futuremark's PCMark Storage 2.0

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It would be uncommon for a drive like the Intel SSD DC P4600 to be used for the workloads that exist in this benchmark, but we figured some of you would be interested in the comparisons nonetheless. Here, the Intel SSD DC P4600 finishes toward the bottom of the group somewhere in between the Micron 9100 MAX and consumer-class Intel SSD 750. There is only a 2% spread separating the highest and lowest performers here, however. As a result, with the exception of the bandwidth test, the deltas aren't very dramatic.

Tags: Intel, SSD, Storage, NAND, PCIe, nvme, p4600

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com