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You mean Intel doesn't want to tell the _full_ story? I have to agree with you on that. Official statement from Intel included below - "A system that is Intel®
by dis-sys 10y ago
You mean Intel doesn't want to tell the _full_ story? I have to agree with you on that. Official statement from Intel included below -
"A system that is Intel® Optane™ memory ready includes: a 7th Gen Intel® Core™ processor, an Intel® 200 series chipset, M.2 type 2280-S1-B-M connector on a PCH Remapped PCIe* Controller and Lanes in a x2 or x4 configuration with B-M keys that meet NVMe* Spec 1.1 and System BIOS that supports the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) 15.5 driver."
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/optane-memory.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...
Did they mention things like
"it also makes for a very fast primary storage drive, if you can survive on a mere 32GB"
or
"you can use non-Intel caching software for Windows or Linux and then the only system requirement for Optane Memory is that you have PCIe lanes to connect it to"
- floatboth 10y agoThey use "Intel® Optane™" to refer to the whole "solution" including their awful Windows-specific hardware-supported caching hack (Rapid Storage Whatever), because that's how they're going to sell it to consumers. Of course the drives are normal NVMe and you can use them as L2ARC+ZIL in ZFS :D
- dis-sys 10y agoI won't call it a normal nvme. Companies don't make/sell nvme SSD with such awful sequential R/W performance. On the other hand, its random write performance at low QD is not matched by any competitor. It is $45 unit price is another interesting factor for me - I only need 16GBytes but I need 16GBytes each on many machines. I am not really aware of any other tier-1 brand nvme SSDs that are available in such size/price. ;)