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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by wmf on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:21PM (#25807169)
Arguably consumer Optane was a very expensive placebo and thus canceling it is consumer friendly.
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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by tryptophan on Saturday January 16, 2021 @10:03PM (#25807683)
Agreed. I have one of those fancy 32gb optane boost drives that supposedly does smart caching.

Can't really tell a difference in performance regardless of whether it is activated or not.

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