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Please may I pray your forgiveness first for my naivety and 2nd forgive please my disarray because I am keeping the first question unchanged because I think it'
by Cullinet 6y ago
Please may I pray your forgiveness first for my naivety and 2nd forgive please my disarray because I am keeping the first question unchanged because I think it's the way a lot of people will be thinking about Optane and I realised that this duality the memory and storage modes and it's not finished there either, needs far better marketing than I think Intel capable of.
I immediately assumed that you are running Optane DIMMS and enjoying life with great sequential speed and acceptably OK latency memory capacity of multiples of the normal RAM address space for your machines.
I forgot not only the fact that Optane M2 and AIC skus exist but in fact make incredible value improvement on smaller systems. It's up the desktop computational capacity scale where use cases aren't as elegant as the fairly easy to circumscribe NUC applications. (Least those I can imagine).
Second I forgot that Intel shipped the Scale MP authored RAM to block driver for Optane that let you tell your OS to treat storage attached Optane as RAM.
Because of unrelated factors the systems acquisition I was running in H218 is starting over now and as a consequence I never tested components not sure about relevance and 2nd order road map business effects. So since the only pixels I've read about the RAM to block driver option have been 9n the launch specifications and my 3 comments about this since I have no idea if you actually can use storage Optane as RAM.
(Dropping the semantics "storage class" and "memory class" would be my first edict at the helm of Intel strategy. I bet this nomenclature actually confuses the internal planning and delivery itself it's so insidiously confusing I could write one of those hideous corporate communications "style guide" about the possibilities for disaster this way )
Below is my original question I still would dearly appreciate learning your answer to. But I owe you a apology for doubting you in the original because I originally thought that Optane could my to.a lot of beating in a 1l chassis and less. Check out Patrick at Serve the Home for a super series of reviews of inexpensive and bargain performance mini NUC style desktops I'm sure you get no better than with a stick of Optane added.(To a PCIE riser adapter n.b. some of these tiny models give you bifurcation on their only pcie slot which could transform your use cases.
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Intel "new unit of computing" skus have block storage drivers for Optane???
touisteur I must beg your indulgence my desire for knowledge! Can you possibly post a sky / model number of the most capable NUC you have working with Optane?
- touisteur 6y agoErrr not sure what happened here... Thanks for the correction I guess? I'm sure I'm using something 'Optane', very fast, on a NUC PC. I'd be happy to learn something new today, though.
- touisteur 6y agoBTW you asked for sk-y- (sku?), I have a good bunch of NUC7i7BNHX1 and some i5 with similar Optane storage. Don't know whether they're byte addressable, I did talk about mmap and speed...