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What I understand of it, after skipping through all the marketing speak, is that the Optane Memory functions a cache for your SATA drive. The Optane cache is ju

What I understand of it, after skipping through all the marketing speak, is that the Optane Memory functions a cache for your SATA drive. The Optane cache is just a Optane SSD which uses some new and apparently faster 3D Nand technology. And about Linux; somewhere in the PDF with the technical details it states the requirement that your OS has to be 64 bit Windows ..

wtallis 10y ago
> "The Optane cache is just a Optane SSD which uses some new and apparently faster 3D Nand technology." Optane products use 3D XPoint memory, which is not 3D NAND flash memory or any other kind of flash memory. It's probably a phase change memory, but Intel won't say so we have to wait for Chipworks to put it under an electron microscope. The Optane Memory product for consumers is entirely centered around the use case of running Intel's SSD caching software for Windows, which requires a Skylake or newer chipset plus boot firmware that will only actually be available for Kaby Lake systems. The hardware feature they're relying on is a disgusting hack that Linux users want to stay far away from (and can, since there are generic caching solutions for Linux that work atop any block device).