I read that as that it was what he had at hand when running the tests.
Also, if the speed and features are available as professional grade devices today, it will be available everywhere in a few years.
Also, if the speed and features are available as professional grade devices today, it will be available everywhere in a few years.
> It was announced in July 2015 and is available on the open market under brand names Optane (Intel) and subsequently QuantX (Micron) since April 2017.
For comparison, look at how many decades it took SSDs to become commonplace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Flash-based_...
I immediately assumed that you are running Optane DIMMS and enjoying life with great sequential speed and acceptably OK latency memory capacity of multiples of the normal RAM address space for your machines.
I forgot not only the fact that Optane M2 and AIC skus exist but in fact make incredible value improvement on smaller systems. It's up the desktop computational capacity scale where use cases aren't as elegant as the fairly easy to circumscribe NUC applications. (Least those I can imagine).
Second I forgot that Intel shipped the Scale MP authored RAM to block driver for Optane that let you tell your OS to treat storage attached Optane as RAM.
Because of unrelated factors the systems acquisition I was running in H218 is starting over now and as a consequence I never tested components not sure about relevance and 2nd order road map business effects. So since the only pixels I've read about the RAM to block driver option have been 9n the launch specifications and my 3 comments about this since I have no idea if you actually can use storage Optane as RAM.
(Dropping the semantics "storage class" and "memory class" would be my first edict at the helm of Intel strategy. I bet this nomenclature actually confuses the internal planning and delivery itself it's so insidiously confusing I could write one of those hideous corporate communications "style guide" about the possibilities for disaster this way )
Below is my original question I still would dearly appreciate learning your answer to. But I owe you a apology for doubting you in the original because I originally thought that Optane could my to.a lot of beating in a 1l chassis and less. Check out Patrick at Serve the Home for a super series of reviews of inexpensive and bargain performance mini NUC style desktops I'm sure you get no better than with a stick of Optane added.(To a PCIE riser adapter n.b. some of these tiny models give you bifurcation on their only pcie slot which could transform your use cases.
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Intel "new unit of computing" skus have block storage drivers for Optane???
touisteur I must beg your indulgence my desire for knowledge! Can you possibly post a sky / model number of the most capable NUC you have working with Optane?
I'm sure I'm using something 'Optane', very fast, on a NUC PC. I'd be happy to learn something new today, though.
Known as "GNOME Disks".
With increased concurrency and deeper queues, my Samsung 960 Pro which has been running my Windows 10 desktop for several years still can do 294k random 4k reads IOPS, and 2.5GB/s sequential read.
I just don't see place for Optane in any user devices. It's either servers, but it's not obvious choice there or tiny market for benchmark users. May be someone like Apple with its vertical integration could exploit it extreme speed to achieve something awesome, but I doubt it, they don't like to depend on a single supplier.
The odd thing about rewrite count is that it shrinks very quickly the bigger your drive is. In the past you used to have a 128GB boot SSD and install a few games on it. This meant that you constantly deleted and reinstalled games on that low capacity SSD increasing the rewrite count.
Nowadays you can get 500GB SSDs for a decent price. If you can install every game then you might never have to rewrite data on it through uninstallation/installation. A lot of files are only written once and then never changed. With greater capacity you can have more "write once" files.