These are the fastest SSDs in the world and you can buy them right now

By Darren Allan

Want a cracking fast SSD but don’t want to pay a lot of money for the privilege? Then you might want to take a look at the new 3D NAND sporting SSDs which Intel has just released onto the market.

The company has unleashed a number of solid-state drives targeting different arenas including the data centre and Internet of Things, but it’s the Intel SSD 600p and Intel SSD Pro 6000p we are most interested in – pitched at the consumer and business customer respectively.

The 600p is aimed at consumer desktop PCs and notebooks – it’s an NVMe SSD that plugs into a PCIe Gen3 x4 slot, and Intel claims its three times as fast as a traditional SATA SSD, and some 17 times as fast as a hard drive.

Starting at a capacity of 128GB, that base model offers sequential read speeds of up to 770MB/s and write speeds of up to 450MB/s, and random read/write speeds of 35,000/91,000 IOPS respectively. But perhaps the most tempting element here is the price – you can pick this flavour up right now for around £60 (about $80, AU$105) online.

There are also 256GB, 512GB and 1TB drives, with performance rising through these ranks – …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components