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Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs by Symmetry on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:24PM (#17190842)
That level of endurance is great if you've got wear leveling routines like a SSD has but not if writes to the same logical cache line hit the same physical block each time.
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Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs by monocasa on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:32PM (#17190956)
Does 3D xpoint have a need for wear leveling? It's a fundamentally different technology than NAND flash. The numbers stated are very close to what you get out of spinning rust in the enterprise space.
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Re:Intel Announces Optane DIMMs by wmf on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:07PM (#17191284)
It does use wear leveling, especially since the quoted endurance is far lower than promised.
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