I remember when the rule of thumb for big storage arrays was "100 IOPS per disk." It's still only that with common desktop disks and only 200-ish for enterpris

I remember when the rule of thumb for big storage arrays was "100 IOPS per disk." It's still only that with common desktop disks and only 200-ish for enterprise SAS disks. This device provides the equivalent of 2500-5000 disks of IOPS. Latency, particularly write latency, should be better than flash as well. The price isn't too bad really; a Samsung 960 PRO M.2 1TB is $600 for a little more than twice the storage. It's still early days for 3d xpoint; Intel and Micron will build on this. Exciting stuff.