I wonder if Optane had some potential as an intelligent cache solution. I envision the OS writing a file to disk and if that file is below a certain threshold in size, a 2nd copy is mirrored to an Optane drive. On disk read, the OS then reads from Optane first if the file is mirrored there...
I think I might be the only person on earth to install 2 P1600X Optane drives in RAID 0 on a NUC8i7HVK. You get great sequential and most of the 4KQ1T1 performance that Optane provides and a capacity that you can actually use ..... sort of. That is the problem though, its insanely expensive to...
Its such a tough call but sometimes you have to have faith in your technology and push through the growing pains. I was a big supporter of Optane all the way through but I never got to the point where I felt comfortable suggesting it to anyone due the problems I mentioned above. Out of...
It really is too bad that Optane could not compete with NAND in any key metrics. Optane had untouchable endurance and latency compared to NAND, but loses in key categories namely price to capacity ratio and package size to total storage ratio.
The only way to get anything approaching reasonable...
They did the same thing to their own staff once before. There was a video up on youtube of an Intel summit where they specifically mention the 815P/M15 and a few online retailers had order forms up with Intel's official product identification numbers. The cancellation was already in the works...
As a stand alone product for consumer, it had all kids of problem. Price/GB, capacity, form factor and heat were all issues compared to top of the line NAND solutions.
The only thing that came close was their hybrid drives but the way they work was offloading the actual caching computation onto...
After Optane is dead and gone, I am sure someone will test direct storage on a P5800X and the results will be amazing. The mining crazy showed Intel that gamers were willing to spend crazy $ on their gaming hardware, its too bad that they never found a way to get a gamer focused Optane drive...
They did shoot down a lot of stupid stuff. There was a period of about 1 year where a cheap 2TB SATA SSD + 58 GB Optane drive was cheaper than a 2TB NVMe SSD and the 4KQ1T1 performance was way better. Not only did Intel not promote this, they flat out said it was not supported and was not the...
So, I did a really dumb experiment that totally violates RAID protocol by RAIDing together 2 totally different SSDs. I put a P1600X and a 980 PRO into RAID 0 just to see what would happen. Turns out, its actually kind of amazing. Both the sequential performance and 4KQ1T1 performance were better...
In the latest episode of 'Intel has no idea what its doing with Optane' it seems that when Intel sold off its SSD division, there was a miscommunication about Optane and NAND being 2 different things...
I'm starting to think I might be the only person to actually benchmarked these P1600X drives. I searched today for other reviews, picked the only chart on google image search and ......... its this thread.
I've got 4 of these in VROC RAID 0 on an Asus Hyper 16X and they are loaded with chips, they could not shrink them to 2280 unless they went with chips on both sides. The 100 and 200 GB P4801X have dead space and could easily be on the 2280 form factor. You are probably right about redesign cost...
The way you deal with insane production costs is to engage the enthusiasts that must have the best of the best. Optane as a caching solution was always seen as a low end option for people that could not afford a real SSD.
If Optane was positioned as the must have drive for enthusiasts they...
Turns out that even CL15 at 2400 is not that great because the Kingston kits listed above do CL15 at 2666 and CL14 at 2400.
These are better than average sticks being marketed as impossibly top tier.
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