Optain intel.

[keith with the teef]

https://www.techspot.com/news/79483-intel-announces-optane-dc-persistent-memory-dimms.html

Been watching the development of this stuff for some time.

Point is though. I cannot see it ever making it to desk top. As things are now with my own rig I have 4TB of storage. So that will be 4TB’s of optain then? Jolly good invetion though!

Who Knows. I dont expect to see me with an OLED monitor any time soon either. But its coming with HDR.

Bumped into a girl the other day who has seen most of the world for free and made some money at it as well by making web sites for hotels. She currently lives in Barley. What?

[Drezha]

It already is on the desktop? When I purchased my Intel NUC, there was an option there for one with Intel Optane.

https://www.ebuyer.com/789522-intel-optane-memory-16gb-m-2-hdd-accelerator-at-ebuyer-com-mempek1w016gaxt

Not quite the same form factor though.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Dave Rice]

That’s a different sort of Optane, used as a disk cache. It uses an M2 slot. The new sort is like a fast SSD that goes into a ram slot.

I’ve just built a gaming PC for my son’s mate and it has an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 256GB M.2-2280 NVMe PCIe SSD.

Up to 3500MB/s Read, 1200MB/s Write
4K IOPS Read: 220000
4K IOPS Write: 290000
5 Year Warranty

£48 at CCLOnline.

It’s insanely fast. Unfortunately I didn’t get chance to run Crystal Mark but it boots in 8 seconds (i5 9400F & 16GB 3000Mhz DDR4). Snappy doesn’t begin to describe W10.

[Ed P]

I dunno Dave I tend to agree with Drezha. The manual for my wife’s NUC implies that the Optane connection can be used with an M2 SSD to give a superfast SSD. There are restrictions on the M2 drive i.e. an Intel SSD so I never bothered to try and use it, and she does not really need it.

[Dave Rice]

Ed, Keefs link is to an entirely different form of Optane. It would be less confusing if they changed the name but I guess it’s the same technology.

It is not the M2 Optane we currently see on modern motherboards, it sits in DDR4 slots and requires a different memory controller currently only available on 1 CPU. Instead of a disk cache you can think of it as a slow non volatile ram replacement, ish, sort of. It sits between SSD and ram in the hierarchy of closeness to the CPU.

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