Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM

Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by mtdewcmu on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:26PM (#13910049)

I've thought about this, and I don't think that making all data persistent is necessarily a good idea. Programs tend to crash and corrupt their volatile memory. If you want some data to be reliable and permanent, you have to treat it as such.

The main obvious advantage of using non-volatile RAM across the board is that it won't consume power all the time, like DRAM.

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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by saidajigumi on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:00PM (#13910274)

"Persist all data" shouldn't be taken as a literal notion. It's better to think about decisions of persistence eventually moving from strongly hardware influenced to purely software- and problem- defined. Just as we've developed abstractions and tools at the persistence ("filesystem") layer now, like snapshotting, similar tools will evolve to take advantage of the new hardware constraints.

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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by mtdewcmu on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:10PM (#13910350)

I'm not sure that the hardware has been that much of a constraint lately. Evolution, not revolution.

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