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Intel sells Optane, which is SRAM for the modern era. It's kind of tricky to get anything out of it (edit: besides using it as a really fast disk, which is what
by freeone3000 6y ago
Intel sells Optane, which is SRAM for the modern era. It's kind of tricky to get anything out of it (edit: besides using it as a really fast disk, which is what it's currently treated like) without bespoke software, as it's neither disk (byte-addressable!) nor RAM (persistent!). Linux kernel support is experimental and ongoing. It's coming, but it's not here yet.
It's also $3000 per TB, triple the price of DDR4, and not much faster.
- selimthegrim 6y agohttps://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane-only-ssds-for-consumers-no-replacements-planned https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane...
- freeone3000 6y agoThey're killing the "consumer" line, not the product entirely. That same announcement unveils the P5800X, which hooks up to a PCI-e x4 slot just the same. There are resellers available for single-unit quantities.
- hnuser123456 6y agoIt's about $1200 per TB for the now-discontinued consumer models. The real benefit vs. NAND is that it doesn't care about read/write mix and has max IOPS with any mix with consistently very, very low latency.