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The very laptop I'm typing this in has 256 GB of Optane memory, I'll never see it's full potential, will I?
by mikewarot 4y ago
The very laptop I'm typing this in has 256 GB of Optane memory, I'll never see it's full potential, will I?
- jeffbee 4y agoThat seems pretty unlikely. Do you mean it has a 256GB SSD with a small amount of Optane memory fronting it, integrated on an NVMe device? 256GB of Optane persistent memory would cost north of $2500.
- madisp 4y agoMy desktop has a 480GB Optane disk, it cost around $500 4 years ago. There was a prosumer lineup of almost affordable Optane disks - https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/123626/intel-optane-ssd-900p-series-480gb-12-height-pcie-x4-20nm-3d-xpoint.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/123626/...
- jeffbee 4y agoYeah but that’s not the byte-addressable looks-exactly-like-DRAM stuff the article is going on about.
- madisp 4y agowhat do you mean? the disk only has optane, there's no NAND or anything behind it like some of the lower end Optane SSDs.
- donavanm 4y agoOptane is/was sold as pcie/nvme block devices. I use that for durability compared to TLC flash. It was also sold as DRAM format hanging off a memory controller and presented as (magically persistent) pages/bytes to the os/application. Theyre different price points.