joshua_p_

yuck, that evga cooler looks like something from the mid 2000's. Clear plastic and a TON of fins..... last gen coolers looked much nicer, that just looks cheap.

Havent seen that article but will lok for it. I think Intel was hedging their bets on A. the big box builds who want to sell better performance and save a buck (as mentioed above) and B. gamers who want all of their shtuff on a single big fat HDD, which is few of us at this point. if this tech was here a few years ago as a bridge to SSD it may have worked better. I would bet there are future implementations (even with firmware updates) that may unlock more potential for non boot or even raid array configs, but until that happens this seems pretty niche.

ahh there it is. i missed that chart. no backwards compatibility for older chipsets, no non boot performace boost, ro real boost to SSD's, and no raid support.... now i really dont get the point of optane at all. Thanks Intel

Linus's review is specifically about boot drive performance (SSD boot w/Optane and HDD boot w/Optane) and it seems most of Intel's documentation is about performance increases in boot times, application launches, etc. It seems Optane is more targeted at drives that have predictable read/write requests like a system drive. My question is more specifically about secondary drive performance (non boot performance and non application performance). Say I am editing video or audio on my secondary drive pool. Will I see any performance increase? Do RAID config see any significant increase? I guess what I am asking is more along the lines of: Does Optane increase performance in mixed SSD + HDD multi-drive systems?

So I have a 500 GB SSD system drive plus two 1TB mechanincal 3.5" Drives in RAID 0 for media storage and overflow application storage. All of the tests I've seen for Optane show how it affects performance for mechanical system drives, brining them up to "near" ssd performance. My question is to whether a system config like mine would show any significant performance increase on my secondary drive pool, and how well Optane works with RAID arrays. Any Ideas, or reviews seen on this?