Optane memory

[Campy]

Sounds nice and all, but my ASRock AB350M Pro4 only has one "Ultra M.2" socket on it. So I'll have to wait for 128GB Optane SSDs, the ones that can actually utilize PCI-E 3.0 x4, not the current crop of x2 drives.

Well yeah, even though it's not super expensive It's definitely a luxury option which people who like the overkill performance can go for.

If you really wanted to you could possibly get a pci-e card with an m.2 slot and make it work on your current board, but you're probably better off waiting for the larger drives anyway.

 

[dullard]

New Optane information is coming soon:
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/int...ation-new-ssd-form-factor-innovative-designs/

• An updated SATA family of SSDs for data center, targeted at HDD replacement
• Dual port SSDs
• Leszinske will also share additional details on these products during a keynote address at Flash Memory Summit ... Wednesday, Aug. 9, The Intel booths... will feature demos of the new SSDs.

New drives (non-Optane) available to select customers now (the rest of us have to wait until the end of the year):
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-dc-s4500-s4600-brief.html

Optane Memory in its current implementation is the one that has "middling" reads and sluggish writes. But that's segmentation, not a technology limit.

I'm confused as to why you quoted me there. I was talking about the bottom-of-the-line Optane, not all Optane.

 

[VirtualLarry]

New Drives available to select customers now (the rest of us have to wait until the end of the year), and describes next-gen Optane in a bit more detail:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-dc-s4500-s4600-brief.html

Those are just the enterprise version of Intel 545s SATA 2.5" SSDs. Those have NAND, not 3DXpoint.

 

[dullard]

Those are just the enterprise version of Intel 545s SATA 2.5" SSDs. Those have NAND, not 3DXpoint.

Updated to make it more clear that these are non-Optane. Thanks.

 

[toad096]

An Intel Optane 900p prosumer drive with capacities up to 1500GB and form factor AIC and U.2 seems to be in the works:

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/in...mer-optane-ssd-with-high-volume-capacity.html

http://www.overclock.net/t/1631569/...ar-as-confirmed-by-intel-during-computex-2017

Hopefully Intel will launch still this year.