> Optane claims performance 1,000 faster than NAND SSDs with 1,000 times the performance, while being four to five times the price of flash memory. Optane is pr

> Optane claims performance 1,000 faster than NAND SSDs with 1,000 times the performance, while being four to five times the price of flash memory. Optane is proof that storage class memory is not just experimental. This was a very bold claim from Intel. That was in 2015. It’s 2020 and I haven’t seen any benchmarks that meet this. And it’s not clear the roadmap is going to scale to that figure. Right now it’s still not quite good enough to be a main memory (but as a caching tier between main memory and disk).