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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by benjohnson on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:43PM (#25806631)
I'll miss it - we have a Virtualized Windows 2019 Server on it that reboots in 9 seconds. We set it to auto login and it's at the full in the desktop and ready to go.

Hopefully Micron will introduce an equivalent version.

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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by daxfohl on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:47PM (#25806660)
Surprised Optane would help that. I would figure boot would be mostly large reads, minimal writes, which flash would do just as well or better, especially on PCIe 4.0.
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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by benjohnson on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:40PM (#25806981)
Having it on a VM host bypasses a lot of bios delay.

Optane, at the time we bought it, was significantly faster than any consumer SSD.

With a Windows 10 install mounted on the Optane and installing it to a Optane hosted VM, the install takes four minutes if you have that file that answers the quetions Windows needs to install.

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