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Hopefully that should be enough for the swap file while Chrome is running.

If your use case is intense random IO writes a pcie 3 generation optane drive would be a better choice. Significantly less space and much lower sequential thoroughput but much better latency and about the same random IO thoroughput and probably better TBWs.

Have nand ssds caught up with optane on random? Last I've heard they were still handily beating them but it has been a while

No. Nothing on the market today is faster than a 905p when it comes to latency.

Really is bizarre considering it’s an 8 year old product.

Mine died a few months ago (I'm pretty sure just the onboard electronics died, not the cells) and I miss it.

I'd heard the Micron 7450 Pro 15 TB u.3 is comparable to an Optane 905p 1.5TB u.2 when it comes to random 4K IO; spec sheet states, "Latency, READ (TYP): 80μs, WRITE (TYP): 15μs" and 500k iops. Whereas a typical Optane 905p has 10μs writes up to 500 kiops. (ref: https://www.micron.com/content/dam/micron/global/public/docu... vs https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16636/rr-rate-905p-1500.pn...)

Over that range they're comparable it's ~10 microseconds vs ~15 microseconds. Really impressive stuff for a charge trap SSD. Size for size, and cost for cost, I'd rather have optane though.

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