intel optane memory

[TheBean]

intel optane memory 32gb + hdd or ssd? not going to be storing a huge amount but extra space can come in handy later. is the optane memory actually that good that its ssd like performance? if it is, shouldn't ssd's be useless now as a optane stick can accelerate your hdd to ssd/better than ssd performance?

[The Sloth]

waste of money, just get an SSD for that price and a normal hdd.  

[suchamoneypit]

Linus did just do a video on it where you can see its performance impact in charts with an HDD and SSD. Not really worth it imo, up to you. For the same price you could get a ~120GB SSD.

 

 

[ARikozuM]

Get a 240GB SATA M.2 SSD if you want to populate that slot.

[Enderman]

Either you're very poor and can only afford a HDD (in which case intel optage is good for you)

Or you can afford an SSD and you do not waste money on optane, you get a larger SSD or SSD+HDD combo.

[xentropa]

26 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

1. The Optane SSD does not function as storage on its own. 500GB hdd + 32GB Optane stick = 500GB of total storage

2. It function as a cache drive, storing a copy of 32GB of your most frequently accessed data

3. Stuff that you do not frequently access, or have never accessed before, still load off the hdd as if the Optane stick wasn't there

Is this also true for that expensive 375 gb pcie server optane as well?

[Electronics Wizardy]

14 minutes ago, xentropa said:

Is this also true for that expensive 375 gb pcie server optane as well?

Well optane on the desktop can work as a standalone drive these just aren't many uses for it, so the main use is to use intels caching program. You could run it as a standard drive

 

The data center adds a use case and let's you use it as ram. 

[xentropa]

I heard 3dxpoint uses Germanium Antimony Tellurium phase change memory as the memory cell. This materials retention time is not so good (several months).  Maybe thats why it can only be some sort of cache.

[unijab]

Depending how it runs with linux... I wouldnt mind one with a USB drive as the boot device.

[TheBean]

is there a noticable difference if i use the 16gb version? because that is only $40 and a large hdd would be great... small ssd's dont have the value as gb/$ massively decreases with small ssd's that i have seen.