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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.
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.