Intel Optane Review

[harryoui]

On 06/05/2017 at 7:50 AM, unijab said:

The optane memory modules have to be used with the 200 series Intel chipsets.. once the optane SSDs are released, you can use it as a normal drive.

I tweeted Intel Guy James Myers and he replied saying:

[I think you might have to click on the link to get the full context of the q&a]

 

So I'm pretty sure that without 200 series intel chipsets and other necessary drivers, cpu, etc, it will act as a normal drive.

[e14]

On 2017-5-12 at 3:38 AM, harryoui said:

I tweeted Intel Guy James Myers and he replied saying:

[I think you might have to click on the link to get the full context of the q&a]

 

So I'm pretty sure that without 200 series intel chipsets and other necessary drivers, cpu, etc, it will act as a normal drive.

Perfect, thank you! I was looking exactly for such information, and was totally irritated by Intel's marketing material, since it implies that "Optane" drives would not work at all on anything other than Kaby lake processors (but still run on NVMe?).

 

 

[Rmerc]

On 4/26/2017 at 9:56 AM, Proesterchen said:

I'm not even sure RST supports caching a RAID-array, but even if it does, the usefulness of this module would highly depend on your use case. Do the video files in use at any one time fit mostly or entirely on the Optane module? (16GB / 32GB) How is your server connected to your workstations? (if it's just GbE, forget about it)

 

Also, a 20TB, 5 disk RAID 5 sounds like a terrible idea, I hope you have a proper backup strategy. (and adhere to it!)

Well honestly, it will be my first server I have ever built, managed, or used. I've just been asking around. I'm a videographer and editor who is starting a business and just needs to back up my stuff. I will one day need 100s of terabytes of storage, but not anytime soon. With what I'm doing now, 20TB would fit my needs for about 2 or 3 years. But could you fill me in on why a 5 disk RAID 5 server would be bad? If a disk fails, I still have one to pick up its slack, and then I could just swap it out. Right? I'm completely new to the server world. I thought RAID 5 was a safe config.

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Rmerc said:

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Start a new thread.

[slavikcc]

On 2017-04-24 at 9:02 PM, Angus Wu said:

Will it operate with a M.2 NVME SSD boot drive (OS) and only optane the my 4tb HDD. So basically an NVME ssd boot drive + an excellerated HDD?

According to Intel, using Optane on a non-boot drive does not work: