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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by daxfohl on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:14AM (#25808356)
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fastest-windows-10-boot... I should have just googled it. So 4 seconds for optane and 5 for Samsung. I'm surprised, but it looks legit. Though I wonder now if pcie4 changes things since the article was published.
Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by cm2187 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:34AM (#25810197)
That's my point in the other post. Is that 1 second boot time gain really worth the money? Not arguing against it for heavy duty enterprise workloads. But as a consumer, at one point the extra performance is wasted on them.
Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by daxfohl on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:26AM (#25905005)
Sure, but if you're a power user with deep pockets, you may still be interested. But you'll want to know whether you can something tangible out of it on your workstation, and it's not exclusively a multitenant cloud database optimizer (or worse, a regression for typical workstation workload performance).

So, the Windows boot speed comparison provides an indication that it'll give some benefit to personal workstations too. Whether it's worth it or not is another question entirely.