We had to dig into Silicon Motion's SM2262 documentation to gain further insight into the new features.
The business model also enables Intel's Remote Secure Erase through vPro Platform Security.
Intel did release a business-focused 760p model today that provides accelerated TCG Opal 2.0 and eDrive hardware encryption technology. The consumer model doesn't feature encryption or a fancy heat sink. Once you get past the high performance and low price, the 760p series is a fairly basic consumer SSD. The 600p suffered from low performance, though, so Intel had to market it as a SATA replacement. It's not like Intel to release true value SSDs that undercut other companies on price, so it was surprising when Intel's previous-generation 512GB 600p challenged the MyDigitalSSD BPX at the $200 price point. Intel has an established history of low failure rates, solid performance, and, to tie it all together, premium pricing.
Intel claims the 760p offers an amazing mix of performance and price, so this just might be the NVMe SSD we've been waiting for. Better yet, the 760p series retains the same entry-level SSD pricing model even though it sports up to 3,200 MB/s of throughput and 350,000 random read IOPS. The new 760p comes with bold claims of twice the performance and capacity of the 600p along with half the power consumption. Intel's 760p NVMe SSD is the successor to the company's 600p, which is an SSD that's admired more for its price than performance.