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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by lproven on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:50PM (#26081718)
OK, yes, fair points. :-)

I discovered something that I didn't know in the Q&A afterwards: that flash SSDs can be permanently damaged if the power goes out unexpectedly.

https://www.atpinc.com/blog/how-industrial-SSDs-handles-powe...

Optane fixed this, or rather, was not affected.

This is not such a bad issue in laptops, but it's a potential killer in desktops with SSDs.

Perhaps if Intel had marketed Optane SSDs better, they'd have sold to enthusiasts for just this reason...

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Re:Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a... by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:28PM (#26082593)
True, I was definitely interested myself. Not really for this reason (my important stuff is triple-backed-up including offsite :) ) but for the great performance. But I was waiting for the price to drop a bit. It didn't really happen. I totally agree, Intel is very poor at marketing.
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