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A comment on The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance.

Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by elorant on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:40PM (#14160635)
Which are the use cases for an SSD like that? Would I see improvements if I were to load my db on it or is it for working with bigger files?
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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by mozumder on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:20PM (#14161434)
These are going to be absolute beasts for databases.

Databases are best on drives that have reduced latencies. Data access is random and keeps jumping around the drive for joins. Your SELECT statements are going to speed up in proportion to latency improvements.

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Re:The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D... by unholythree on Friday April 21, 2017 @01:33AM (#14163312)
First thing I think of is a Cache drive for a SSD array.
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