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This is why Optane storage is amazing. Wears out about ten times slower, and has incredible 4K random read performance on top of it. It almost feels like Intel
by rl3 8y ago
This is why Optane storage is amazing. Wears out about ten times slower, and has incredible 4K random read performance on top of it.
It almost feels like Intel is squandering a massive advantage by not pushing it harder. I know Optane DIMMs are coming soon, but M.2 form factor would be nice as well.
- Rafuino 8y agoWhat would you use it for yourself? (disclosure: I work at Intel on Optane-related topics.)
- rl3 8y agoThe fast 4K random read is handy for delta backups to hard disk; I can read half a million files in about a minute, determine what changed, and send whatever small changes off to disk. Another great use case is for web/npm projects with a million dependencies, all flat file. Working with those is usually miserable otherwise. In the future I intend to crunch time series data with it.