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Intel Optane 1.5TB 905P U.2 SSD US$354.99 (~A$532.42) Delivered @ Newegg eBay
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they still make these ?
I was thinking this too. I remember them about a decade ago?
I rmemeber seeing a kid w a optane laptop in 2019…
was like a 4gb lapotp w Intel optane as additional ram?
Good to know these still exists
are these expensive because of the high IOPS? are these SLC?
It's 3D XPoint (cross-point) technology, which is a phase-changing material instead of the normal floating-gate transistor on NANDs. It gives Optane:
- an unbelievable endurance (365TBW on a 16GB Optane drive or 8760TBW on Optane 905P, compared to 300-600TBW on a typical 1TB NVMe drive), and
- ridiculous 4K IOPs on low queue depth (200K on QD1 and almost 500K on QD4+, which is something only later gen 4 and gen 5 drives can match)
- very low latency (as low as 11us on 905P and even lower, 0.35us, on Optane Persistent Memory, compared to 20-30us on most gen 4 NVMe), which is good enough to be a tiered, persistent storage (NVRAM) between SSD and DDR memory
And don't forget Optane is PCIe Gen 3.
What makes NANDs cheap is because they can have multi-level per cell (MLC) and stacking (3D NAND). 3D XPoint is already a 3D structure therefore hard to stack (if you say they're SLCs, it's not entirely wrong), means they're expensive to manufacture.
Optane is a mess and was never really needed.
Massive confusion, is it storage? is it RAM? well…. it was both.
What does it even do… and the answer is… well.. even Intel doesn't know.This specific example looks to be a U.2 SSD
If you need U.2 then fine..
If you'd need to adapt it to M.2 then at this price you can get a 4TBSamsung 990 Pro cheaper (once factoring in adaptor purchase).
Optane is far superior to your Samsung NAND slop when it comes to OS performance, VM storage, cache, databases and synchronous writes.
Are optanes for everyone? No, but they have their niche.
Far superior?
Per Intel's own specs this is a PCIe 3.0x4 device 2.6GB/s read and 2.2GB/s write.
How is that superior to current mid to high tier and similarly priced PCIe gen 4 and 5 SSDs ?
It's literally bottlenecked by it's own interface.No need to be a prick. I have no idea what your problem is.
And no, Samsung is not 'mine' as you suggest. Aside from one 8 year old unit I don't own any Samsung storage.The reality is that while Optane did a few cool things it was too expensive, had limited benefit and was never widely adopted.
Sure… there were a few niche cases… databases for sure a few years ago.But you can't sit there and tell me this device beats an equivalently priced current gen SSD that has independant reviews showing it running 2.5 ro 3.0 x faster than Intel's best claims of this device. Even by Intel's own numbers it doesn't.
The latest Optane is still not bad on paper, but aside from edge cases no one is using it, and that's the point i rightly made and was down voted for.
Per Intel's own specs this is a PCIe 3.0x4 device 2.6GB/s read and 2.2GB/s write.
You just don't get it. Stop using PCIe total bandwidth speed as a benchmark and actually read about what Optane can do.
It absolutely has solid use cases in the current year, just not for a gamer like yourself.
that's really a good deal