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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by jrockway on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:46PM (#13908872)
Scaling beyond what fits inside one computer is a reasonable concern that this addresses, but ultimately that one computer can be sucked up by a tornado at an inconvenient time, so distributed systems will always be necessary for availability and durability.
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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:41AM (#13911751)
Resiliency, yes, but maybe not performance. Still a great win :)
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