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Battery backed DRAM is likely a better choice for performance & endurance in most applications, as the Optane product line is a lame duck with memory that dies
by StudentStuff 9y ago
Battery backed DRAM is likely a better choice for performance & endurance in most applications, as the Optane product line is a lame duck with memory that dies around the 1TB of writes mark, leaving you with lost data and a dead SSD.
- wtallis 9y ago> as the Optane product line is a lame duck with memory that dies around the 1TB of writes mark, leaving you with lost data and a dead SSD. You seem to be much more concerned with venting anger than conveying accurate or relevant information.
- Dylan16807 9y agoConsidering that the Intel drive in https://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte https://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experi... self-destructed when it ran out of guaranteed lifetime, I think it's a fair criticism.
- wtallis 9y agoThere's nothing fair about making up a number that's wrong by multiple orders of magnitude. I'm not a fan of the end of life behavior of Intel SSDs either, but it's a consistent policy that does work well for enterprise usage scenarios, with no unexpected data loss. They probably shouldn't be applying the same policy to the consumer products. But the fact that there are valid criticisms to be made doesn't mean this particular one was fair or germane.
- Dylan16807 9y agoOh, I wasn't even looking at the value of the number. Yeah, it's bad to exaggerate like that without being clear about it. But something performance-heavy can burn out an endurance of 10 drive writes per day pretty fast.