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Tell me about it... Was just too expensive compared to flash. But the tech was definitely awesome and I hope it'll come back in one way or another.

When designing CedarDB, we recently had multiple instances where we thought: "If we had just a few KiB of Optane here ... "

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Oh, it's amazing. I use a small chunk of it at home for ZIL, even though my synch writes are few and far between.

It's just approximately the Right Thing to use for some things, and I had room for it, and it was rather inexpensive when I bought it. :)

10/10, would recommend and buy again. (Whoops!)

I have various generations of optane I stocked up on for my own small business and home lab use, and fully agree.

I don’t know if you’re aware but Samsung introduced their own version of optane just shortly before Intel killed their product line. It was called Samsung Z and it was prohibitively expensive for some reason, but I didn’t hear that it was officially killed off (though it likely has been).

I found it deep in my Amazon “saved for later” but it’s no longer available: https://amzn.to/3z7QeGu

If it's just a few KiB then various NVRAM techs have been slowly creeping forward for decades. But they've never made it to datacenter storage.

https://www.avalanche-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/1Gb-... https://www.everspin.com/spin-transfer-torque-ddr-products

Does an SSD with power loss protection achieve the same level of performance, or is optane still better?

Are you taking the durability into account when you say kilobytes?

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