Intel to release Optane 905P as a consumer M2 SSD

Intel will release m2 modules from its Optane 905P consumer SSD, in addition to the PCI-e cards and u2 variants. The Optane 905P with m2 form factor has a storage capacity of 380GB.

According to Gegory Bryant, vice president of Intel’s Client Computing Group, four Optane 905P SSDs can provide 1.5TB of storage in raid. Intel showed PCI-e cards from Gigabyte and ASRock that make this possible. Whether there will also be models with more or less than 380GB is not clear and the price is also unknown.

Intel announced the Optane 905P a month ago, without much publicity. The 905P line is the successor to the 900P and currently consists of a 960GB PCI-e card and a 480GB u2 model. Rumors about the arrival of the m2 variant were already there at the end of April. The 905P line appeared relatively soon after the 900P line: Intel announced it in October last year.

The drives are based on Intel’s 3D Xpoint memory. This is phase-change memory that should distinguish itself not so much with its sequential read and write speed, but above all with its low latency, good performance in the field of random 4k I/Os and its endurance.