Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned

Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by pstrateman on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:47PM (#25806662)

This seems fine, they're still going to produce NAND with an Optane cache.

That gets you the price and 80% of the performance.

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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by wtallis on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:20PM (#25807167)

The drives with NAND and Optane are pretty bad products though, and Intel doesn't even attempt to sell them directly to consumers. They're basically the dumping grounds for leftover/low-grade QLC NAND and 3D XPoint chips.

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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by Dylan16807 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:30PM (#25806911)

Is the cache smart about prefetching related files to your current activity?

If not, it's so tiny that while it will give you amazing performance on disk and database benchmarks I'm not convinced it will be notably better than an SLC cache when doing anything else. And an SLC cache doesn't require an extra chip.

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