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How it compares to massive swapping to typical SSD?

• dsr_ 10y ago
  Badly. Suppose you have a 16GB laptop and the 16GB optane. When you close your laptop to take it to a mid-morning meeting, you've just done a whole drive write. Do it again at lunch, twice in the afternoon and again when you get home, you're at 5 of your 6 drive writes. Now imagine you open your laptop 8 or 12 times a day...
  • hoschicz 10y ago
    Closing laptop usually mean suspend to memory, not disk.
    • dsr_ 10y ago
      Not in the regime Intel is proposing, because optane stores data without power like a disk.
  • Razengan 10y ago
    > When you close your laptop ... you've just done a whole drive write. Which OS does that? I know macOS doesn't, but it still manages to recover documents in the event of a crash thanks to NSDocument autosaving anyway.