Optane Memory – A bridge between DRAM and storage

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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