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Does anyone know if there are stats on things like Windows boot times / game load times? I've seen graphs that show boot times comparable between average SSDs and the 960 EVO; is this something an average home user could feel an improvement with?

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Booting Windows and loading games is full of large sequential reads using high queue depths. This is something ssd controller can optimize well already.

Average consumers don't need this. Enthusiast gamers don't need this. This is enterprise hardware rebranded for consumers.

No, it's exactly the opposite. Enterprise workload with a big queue depth is the realm of SSD. Xpoint brings the same or much better speed (use case dependent) even to the consumers that need for 99% of the time a queue depth between 1 and 4.

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