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INTEL OPTANE, WHAT SIZE TO BUY

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hey guys, I recently bought a laptop and it came with just an hdd, I really want to upgrade it but don't have the resources to buy an ssd. So I thought of buying an intel optane to accelerate the hard disk, but I couldn't find the answer to what should be the size of optane (16 gb/ 32gb.. etc). Do the size of files which I want accelerated matter? or the number of files? I do a bit of gaming so.. yeah.. I really want to get away from this eye wateringly slow load times.

please help

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7 minutes ago, a99007 said:

hey guys, I recently bought a laptop and it came with just an hdd, I really want to upgrade it but don't have the resources to buy an ssd. So I thought of buying an intel optane to accelerate the hard disk, but I couldn't find the answer to what should be the size of optane (16 gb/ 32gb.. etc). Do the size of files which I want accelerated matter? or the number of files? I do a bit of gaming so.. yeah.. I really want to get away from this eye wateringly slow load times.

please help

Optane is used as a caching drive so i would say for a 1TB = 16Gb and 2TB = 32gb and so on. Loading times will only decrease after repeating paterns are discovered.

 

Which means if you play allot of games that swap maps, it wouldn't do much good but GTA V which always loads the whole map it can help.

CAN being the directive here, an improvement is not guaranteed unless you put the games on a SSD altogether.

 

and even then some games do not support it...

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3 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

just before you buy it, what gen intel processor do you have?

 

7th gen (7300hq)

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3 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

just before you buy it, what gen intel processor do you have?

 

and dude you have some baller specs on your hardware

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1 minute ago, a99007 said:

and dude you have some baller specs on your hardware

even bought it on dutch pricing. its not cheap at all here.

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Just now, LukeSavenije said:

even bought it on dutch pricing. its not cheap at all here.

even at my place, literally everything costs like 50% more than standard us prices

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6 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

even bought it on dutch pricing. its not cheap at all here.

I know xD 

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Does your laptop even have slot/support for an Optane drive?

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None, save for an actual SSD.

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10 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Does your laptop even have slot/support for an Optane drive?

Idk, it's a laptop so I can't check for the motherboard but my cpu should support it

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1 hour ago, a99007 said:

Idk, it's a laptop so I can't check for the motherboard but my cpu should support it

If you don't have a slot for it, you can't get Optane. Check your laptop manual.

 

Plus in my opinion, SSD is the better way to go, unless you really need a lot of storage, in which case you would need to pay a lot more for an SSD.

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Hydrogen server: Intel i3-10100 | Cryorig M9i | 64 GB Crucial Ballistix 3200MHz DDR4 | Gigabyte B560M-DS3H | 33 TB of storage | Fractal Design Define R5 | unRAID 6.9.2

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