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welcome back ladies and gentlemen to Tec 180 city this is brian coming to you guys today with a look at an SSD more specifically two of them in raid zero and how they perform this is the 600p MDOT two nvme PCIe drive from intel the 256 gigabyte version that carries a quite impressive five year warranty as a silicon motion controller and can theoretically do much higher speeds than standard SSDs running over side of three especially two of them in raid zero which combines the drives for double the speeds but at the expense of doubling the potential failure rate in this scenario however this is exactly what I wanted to look at since they are really cheap drives especially for being an m2 PCIe solution so in installing these into my MSI titanium motherboard installation went pretty smoothly and even the first benchmark das SSD benchmark which I consider more of a standard consumer gamer benchmark did quite well and pulled off some impressive figures so when I got on to the more intense benchmark HD tune Pro which pretty much tells me everything I need to know about a drive sensitizer loads with a zero mix or random patterns it produced some really really odd and on that note quite terrible performance figures it was so shocking in fact that a standard hard drive would be a better option if you were doing any kind of intense file transfers or production work for example copping many large files from one drive to another this in my opinion is unacceptable for two reasons the first being in the real world when you are putting this drive through heavy workloads it will be wasting your time and the second reason being since something is clearly being stressed too hard it can potentially cause your drive or even the whole computer to crash which in a work environment is unacceptable as well but you may be wondering why is this quite simply something on this drive as being overloaded of us said before whether it be the cheaper TLC NAND flash memory the memory buffer or the controller I just can't simply recommend this drive to anyone using it for a workstation in mind though that is it maybe the SSD benchmark school was still quite impressive and if all you want to do is game and/or have a very snappy experience without doing any intense file transfers and the drive is going for a special price then I could see this drive being a decent recommendation though there are two other MDOT two PCIe nvme solutions that I've already tested here that is the Corsair MP 500 and the a piece is e 280 both are currently a bit over $200 and offer much faster speeds and have mlc flash based memory and don't have any performance issues when it comes to consistency so I would recommend either of these drives over the Intel solution even with this one being in raid zero unless of course you need to install the small m dot two form factor and you are on a strict budget so it may be an option worth considering if the price and usability of what you want from an MDOT to SSD but for the better part there are much faster and more consistent MDOT 2 is already out there albeit a bit more expensive and there are of course 2.5 inch SATA 3 SSDs that perform more consistently for the same money so the form factor is really the only thing going for this drive anyway guys if you enjoyed this video then don't forget to hit that like button though if you dislike the video then be sure to slam that dislike button and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon on also let me know in the comment section below what you think of the 600p from Intel I'd love to read your comments and opinions as always I mean would you just put two of these in raid zero and then go tell your friends about your Toph raid zero solution here we go I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye