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Re:Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage by Joeri on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:58PM (#13970623)
You have to remember thus is a first gen product. Early ssd's were abysmal.
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Re:Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage by tw04 on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:37PM (#13970973)
No, they really weren't. Early CHEAP SSDs from the likes of OCZ were horrible. I STILL have the first Intel SSD I bought - 80GB. It was awesome then and it's still awesome now. It's probably half the speed of modern SSDs, but even then it was several orders of magnitude better than any spinning rust that came before it.

The first gen SLC - from the likes of STEC were as fast if not faster than anything we have now, they were just ridiculously overpriced.

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Re:Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage by runeks on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:21PM (#13971877)
The limitation back then was the controller. Intel figured out how to do it properly before anyone else. I still have an 80 GB X25-M G2 as well (read latency 65 µs [1]).

[1] http://techreport.com/review/17269/intel-second-generation-x...

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Re:Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage by m-j-fox on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:44PM (#13971025)
My disused Thinkpad x200 still has her My SSD Rocks sticker. But her SSD has been recycled into the media nuc.
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Re:Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage by fulafel on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:00AM (#13974210)
The first SSDs were DRAM based and pretty fast for the time, see eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Y-MP. (SRAM, now used in CPU caches, was used for the whole main memory on that machine)
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