problems with optane

[ki8aras]

does anyone know if i can get around the limit of optane acceleration

because i have a 6th gen cpu and a 7th series mobo

[Turtle Rig]

3 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

does anyone know if i can get around the limit of optane acceleration

because i have a 6th gen cpu and a 7th series mobo

Your good,  Optane is a go for your system.

[BobVonBob]

18 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

Your good,  Optane is a go for your system.

Wrong.

 

Optane needs a 7th Gen or higher Core processor. There is no getting around this.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023994/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

[ki8aras]

1 minute ago, BobVonBob said:

Wrong.

 

Optane needs a 7th Gen or higher Core processor. There is no getting around this.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023994/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

u mean theres no getting around it while using intel's software

[Turtle Rig]

1 minute ago, BobVonBob said:

Wrong.

 

Optane needs a 7th Gen or higher Core processor. There is no getting around this.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023994/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

OH no kidding you serious.  I thought it would sorta be backwards compatible.  Sorry for the wrong info,, Thanks for clearing it up BobVonBob. 

[BobVonBob]

Just now, ki8aras said:

u mean theres no getting around it while using intel's software

Nope. Optane acceleration requires some secret sauce in the 7th gen CPUs.

[ki8aras]

8 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Nope. Optane acceleration requires some secret sauce in the 7th gen CPUs.

so i cant use it as an ssd and then use that ssd to accelerate a hard drive?

[unijab]

you can use it as an ssd... just cant use it as an accelerator drive

[BobVonBob]

9 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

so i cant use it as an ssd and then use that ssd to accelerate a hard drive?

You could, but you would probably get better performance out of just buying a similarly priced SSD to put things to be accelerated on. You could get a 480/512GB SSD for a similar price to a 32GB Optane drive.

 

Edit:

That is to say, normal SSD caching off of an Optane drive isn't as good as Intel's RST to my knowledge.

[NumLock21]

Intel Optane does speed up the performance of a HDD, but its limited to the total capacity of that Optane module, and the maximum is only 32GB. You can configured up to a maximum of 64GB of Optane by getting 2x32GB Optane modules, with a board that supports this feature. I think it's only available on their 300 series chipset, cpu might play a part too like 8th gen only, but I could be wrong about that.

You can still use an SSD to accelerate your hdd, just not through optane.

[ki8aras]

5 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Intel Optane does speed up the performance of a HDD, but its limited to the total capacity of that Optane module, and the maximum is only 32GB. You can configured up to a maximum of 64GB of Optane by getting 2x32GB Optane modules, with a board that supports this feature. I think it's only available on their 300 series chipset, cpu might play a part too like 8th gen only, but I could be wrong about that.

You can still use an SSD to accelerate your hdd, just not through optane.

forget about it xd

[nosirrahx]

55 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Intel Optane does speed up the performance of a HDD, but its limited to the total capacity of that Optane module, and the maximum is only 32GB. You can configured up to a maximum of 64GB of Optane by getting 2x32GB Optane modules, with a board that supports this feature. I think it's only available on their 300 series chipset, cpu might play a part too like 8th gen only, but I could be wrong about that.

You can still use an SSD to accelerate your hdd, just not through optane.

Intel lies about Optane. Any Optane product is supported by their caching software.

This is a 118GB 800P being used to accelerate a SATA SSD.

[nosirrahx]

When it comes to using Optane on a system that does not support it I did some testing and there is a way to get some benefit if the OS is installed on a HDD.

1. Put pagefile on Optane drive.
2. Redirect temp folders and internet cache to Optane drive.

3. Reinstall heavy apps on Optane drive.

That said, just but a new SATA SSD and reinstall windows. 1TB SATA SSDs are cheap as hell and more than fast enough for mouse use cases.