“The Intel^® Solid-State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe* brings extreme data throughput directly to Intel^® Xeon^® processors with up to six times faster data transfer speed than 6 Gbps SAS/SATA SSDs.1The performance of a single drive from the Intel SSD Data Center Family for PCIe, specifically the Intel^® Solid- State Drive Data Center P3700 Series (460K IOPS), can replace the performance of 7 SATA SSDs aggregated through a host bus adapter (HBA) (approximately 500K IOPS).– Intel^®

“Designed specifically to cater to multi-core environments, the NVMe interface provides almost unlimited scaling. The optimized software stack provides a radical reduction in latency. Latency is the most treasured performance characteristic of SSDs and delivers tangible performance benefits to applications. NVMe also lightens the CPU load required to perform storage operations through a number of enhancement – TweakTown