Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
by viraptor on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:07AM
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It doesn't say that the wear leveling is not present inside the box already. It could mean rewriting the whole storage 30 times a day effectively.
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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
by Animats on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:52PM
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If writes can be done at the byte level, the bookkeeping and indirection for byte level wear leveling would take more space than the data. If wear leveling is required, it has to be done on blocks of some reasonable size. They might be smaller than for flash, though.