Intel Optane 16gb

[Tristerin]

Im in the middle of a rebuild and a build.  Im working out the logistics of what I want to carry over and what I want new in each build.  

 

Ive never used Intel Optane, but have only briefly read about it.

 

In a Media Center using large volume HDD's would Intel Optane help in any sort of situation to alleviate the HDD speeds that would be noticeable with the below types of programs potentially on the drives?  Can 1 stick of Optane only be tied to 1 drive?

 

AAA Games all the way down to 2D

Music files

Blu Ray files

Media like pictures etc

 

Anyone with use case can sell me on it or tell me not to worry about it?

[WhitetailAni]

I have 2 sticks of it, but my B350 chipset doesn't support StoreMI.

So I'm not sure.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Im assuming you have a seperate boot drive, right?

 

It might help a little with game load times, esp if you play a game multiple times, but Id personally not bother. It won't make a difference with moveis and music, as there already fast enough on a hdd.

[Radium_Angel]

7 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Im in the middle of a rebuild and a build.  Im working out the logistics of what I want to carry over and what I want new in each build.  

 

Ive never used Intel Optane, but have only briefly read about it.

 

In a Media Center using large volume HDD's would Intel Optane help in any sort of situation to alleviate the HDD speeds that would be noticeable with the below types of programs potentially on the drives?  Can 1 stick of Optane only be tied to 1 drive?

 

AAA Games all the way down to 2D

Music files

Blu Ray files

Media like pictures etc

 

Anyone with use case can sell me on it or tell me not to worry about it?

What Optane was *supposed* to do, was introduce a solid state cache for spinning hard drives, what happened was SSDs got so cheap so fast, Optanes were obsoleted overnight.

They *can* provide a benefit on *some* existing systems (Intel made the Optanes CPU dependent depending on generation) but is generally not worth the hassle.

 

[WhitetailAni]

5 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

What Optane was *supposed* to do, was introduce a solid state cache for spinning hard drives, what happened was SSDs got so cheap so fast, Optanes were obsoleted overnight.

They *can* provide a benefit on *some* existing systems (Intel made the Optanes CPU dependent depending on generation) but is generally not worth the hassle.

Well, their intended use worked for me.

I got 2 16GB modules for $7 (one for Christmas, one used) so once I have my ASRock X570 Steel Legend I'm speeding up the drives that I use (BULK - 2TB and Storage - 250GB, CrystalDiskInfo doesn't know their speeds, not touching my boot drive)

[Tristerin]

6 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Overall it works as extended hard drive cache like an older SSHD did, but substantially faster.

optane + a decent drive is fairly close to ssd speeds in most applications and uses, not as fast as an ssd, but much faster than the HDD alone

AAA games would load faster but not as fast as an ssd

Media wouldn’t be affected much outside of extremely large video or pictures, which would load a little faster 

TY!

 

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Im assuming you have a seperate boot drive, right?

 

It might help a little with game load times, esp if you play a game multiple times, but Id personally not bother. It won't make a difference with moveis and music, as there already fast enough on a hdd.

Will either be an NVMe or SATA III M.2 boot drive, was looking at populating the second M.2 slot.  The reason I am looking at this, is if I go with a 256gb boot drive (with room for applications that I believe must be on the SSD) and I have a couple 3tb drives I was going to put into the system for media, games, etc - the cost is under $20 so sounded like an option rather then an unpopulated slot on the board (or I harvest other M.2's from other machines I have).  

 

The games would be anything from ARK, Steep, Cities Skylines, stuff like that my daughter is currently in love with.

 

6 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

What Optane was *supposed* to do, was introduce a solid state cache for spinning hard drives, what happened was SSDs got so cheap so fast, Optanes were obsoleted overnight.

They *can* provide a benefit on *some* existing systems (Intel made the Optanes CPU dependent depending on generation) but is generally not worth the hassle.

 

Its an M10 variant, cheap enough to think about thus the question

 

 

 

 

So Im getting a resounding not worth it, Ill pass it up, but if you think its worth it at $16 shipped waiting on the China boat, sell me on why its worth lol

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Tristerin said:

Will either be an NVMe or SATA III M.2 boot drive, was looking at populating the second M.2 slot.  The reason I am looking at this, is if I go with a 256gb boot drive (with room for applications that I believe must be on the SSD) and I have a couple 3tb drives I was going to put into the system for media, games, etc - the cost is under $20 so sounded like an option rather then an unpopulated slot on the board (or I harvest other M.2's from other machines I have).  

 

The games would be anything from ARK, Steep, Cities Skylines, stuff like that my daughter is currently in love with.

I wouldn't bother with optane then. Makes you have to deal with the intel raid software which can be annoying. Id just make a storage spaces volume with all your drives.

[Tristerin]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

I wouldn't bother with optane then. Makes you have to deal with the intel raid software which can be annoying. Id just make a storage spaces volume with all your drives.

TY!