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 hedora on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:46AM (#25808723)

From a large-scale purchasing and architectural roadmap point of view, this tells me they won’t enjoy the economies of scale that flash enjoys, and the enterprise drives will be dead in a few years.

Either that, or they’re transitioning to offer consumer grade NVDIMMs, but the hardware APIs for those are really difficult to take advantage of for general purpose compute.

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Re:Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Re... by to11mtm on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:50PM (#25827680)

> From a large-scale purchasing and architectural roadmap point of view, this tells me they won’t enjoy the economies of scale that flash enjoys, and the enterprise drives will be dead in a few years.

I think a lot of OEMs and users quickly figured out that a 128Tb m.2 SSD wasn't much more than a 32gb Optane module cost-wise, at which point you can have your whole boot drive and more on an SSD.

I'm not certain whether enterprise drives will die off as quickly, I suppose it depends on market trends. One marketed plus of 3D XPoint technology was far better write endurance and lack of need for garbage collection. If a data center has a lot of rolling data to process it might not be a bad fit.

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