[News] Intel Quietly Launches Official Optane Memory Site [Update: Shows Performance]

[StyM]

https://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/I...ne-Memory-Site

We've been hearing a lot about Intel's upcoming Optane memory over the past two years, but the information had all been in the form of press announcements and leaked roadmap slides.

We now have an actual Optane landing page on the Intel site that discusses the first iteration of 'Intel Optane Memory', which appears to be the 8000p Series that we covered last October and saw as an option on some upcoming Lenovo laptops. The site does not cover the upcoming enterprise parts like the 375GB P4800X, but instead, focuses on the far smaller 16GB and 32GB 'System Accelerator' M.2 modules.

Despite using only two lanes of PCIe 3.0, these modules turn in some impressive performance, but the capacities when using only one or two (16GB each) XPoint dies preclude an OS install. Instead, these will be used, presumably in combination with a newer form of Intel's Rapid Storage Technology driver, as a caching layer meant as an HDD accelerator:

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Intel Officially Launches Optane Memory, Shows Performance

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INTEL OPTANE MEMORY – 3D XPOINT FOR CLIENT WORKLOADS LAUNCHED

[BenchZowner]

Those caching turds are useless.

All forms of normal SSDs using 3D XPoint however will be golden for those who are used to writing and installing/uninstalling apps/games regularly thanks to the massive increase in drive endurance.