Also on the event is a demonstration of 3 Intel 750 NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 on an upcoming Gigabyte Z170 based board. That consists of 2 U.2 Intel 750 in conjunction with a PCI-E Intel 750 SSD. Gigabyte claims that this is the fastest SSD RAID in the consumer market currently.

CrystalMark benchmarks were run on both the RAID 0 setup & also on an AKiTiO Thunderbolt 3 enclosure which has a 1.2TB Intel 750 PCI-E SSD in it.

Intel SSD pricing

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Intel 750 SSD (PCI-E) on the left & Intel 750 SSD (U.2) on the right.
Gigabyte Skylake Raid0 Rig
Gigabyte Skylake Raid-0 Rig (with i7-6700K @ 4ghz)
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AKiTiO Thunder3 PCIe SSD Enclosure

Akitio Thunder3 PCIe SD Enclosure

Considering that it is competing with a 3x 400GB SSD (2x U.2 & 1x PCI-E) RAID 0 setup, the AKiTiO ThunderBolt 3 (with its 1.2TB Intel 750 SSD) does pretty well.

Pricing Info of AKITIO Thunderbolt 3

Pricing Info

 

By Harry