> It there a performance boost to simply have more memory, even if some of it is Optane, or is it better to have a lower capacity without the Optane sticks? I

> It there a performance boost to simply have more memory, even if some of it is Optane, or is it better to have a lower capacity without the Optane sticks? I would imagine it depends entirely on whether your working set fits in main memory already. if yes, you're not gonna get much speedup from more memory. but if you have to keep swapping from a traditional SSD, it's gonna be hard for faster main memory to make up for that.