Other use of intel optane?

[rans]

Aside from boosting a mechanical os drive. what is the other use of this? 

[Skanky Sylveon]

1 minute ago, Ranz said:

Aside from boosting a mechanical os drive. what is the other use of this? 

Boosting an SSD.

That's about it.

[rans]

1 minute ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

Boosting an SSD.

That's about it.

I thought it can only boost mechanical drive not ssd?

[SCHISCHKA]

it gives intel your money.

Optane SSD will be out at a later date, give intel your money then.

[Skanky Sylveon]

1 minute ago, Ranz said:

I thought it can only boost mechanical drive not ssd?

[James7176]

You could put one tiny tiny application on it and open that in a negative amount of time from when you click it but that about it tbh

[James7176]

Just now, Cinnabar Sonar said:

What about an NVMe SSD? Anyone ever tried it?

[rans]

2 minutes ago, Cinnabar Sonar said:

Lol is it worth to give 6k$?  ahh forget it.

[Skanky Sylveon]

Just now, Ranz said:

What about an NVMe SSD? Anyone ever tried it?

I'm not sure, I don't see why not.  You hardly see an improvement with Optane + SSD though.  I doubt that Optane with an NVMe SSD would be worth your money.

[porina]

Optane gives about an order of magnitude higher single thread random read (hundreds of MB/s) compared to even high end NVMe drives (tens of MB/s). I keep debating if I should blow a ton of cash on a pair of 32GB Optanes, raid 0 it, to have 1 second off load times. Because I can. It has to be a pair as the game I want to speed up is about 32GB in size, so wouldn't fit on one with any expanding potential. There was a short time when some retailers had listed bigger sizes than 32GB as pre-order, but they disappeared. It seems like there might have been planning for something that got pulled.

 

The enterprise Optane SSD is a bit too spendy for me...