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Micron Finally Announces a 3D XPoint Product: Micron X100 NVMe SSD
- SteveNuts 7y agoDoes anyone have any real world experience with these types of drives? If so, what are the use cases?
- kinghajj 7y agoConsistent, super-low latency for reads and writes, even with high queue depths; and high bandwidth, even with low queue depths. I have one in my home workstation, and operations on many small files are noticeably faster compared to the Samsung m.2 SSDs I have. Package updates, for instance, blaze through during the installation step.
- berbec 7y agoI imagine hosting a high-usage rds would be a dream on one of these.
- sitkack 7y agoSkimmed it looking for DIMMs. This is interesting at the right price point but the magic happens with Optane DIMMs.
- PaulHoule 7y agoAn Optane SSD is a fast SSD. An Optane DIMM is a slow DIMM. (Even if it is faster than an SSD) Intel hopes that you can replace a smaller amount of fast DRAM with a larger amount of slow Optane and that it will be faster (e.g. you have more "RAM" so you are less dependent on disk) but that is by no means a sure thing. Note the 16x PCIe connection is a key to AMD supremacy since AMD's microprocessors have many more PCIe channels to play with compared to Intel processors. In the end AMD + Micron might beat the pants of Intel + DIMMs that only work with the most expensive Intel processors.
- jdsully 7y agoThe real magic of Optane DIMMs is their persistence. Using them as volatile memory mostly defeats the purpose unless you need A LOT for some reason.
- fgonzag 7y agoCaches improve performance, Intel is banking on adding another cache layer between RAM and SSDs/HDDs. It could work very well for databases (being able to store 500GB+ indices in RAM without spending tens of thousands of dollars for RAM)
- orev 7y agoHow would these things work for database storage? Do you need to worry about them wearing out like with flash?