Much lower latency. Optane doesn't have any of the "page" / "cell" bullshit that flash imposes, so there's really no need for buffers at all. Writes just go s

Much lower latency. Optane doesn't have any of the "page" / "cell" bullshit that flash imposes, so there's really no need for buffers at all. Writes just go straight to disk basically, at almost zero latency, NVMe itself imposes much more latency than the actual reads/writes.