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Re:Why Your SSD (Probably) Sucks and What Your Database Can ... by lvogel on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:34PM (#40731664)
Tell me about it... Was just too expensive compared to flash. But the tech was definitely awesome and I hope it'll come back in one way or another.

When designing CedarDB, we recently had multiple instances where we thought: "If we had just a few KiB of Optane here ... "

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Re:Why Your SSD (Probably) Sucks and What Your Database Can ... by ssl-3 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @04:02PM (#40731865)
Oh, it's amazing. I use a small chunk of it at home for ZIL, even though my synch writes are few and far between.

It's just approximately the Right Thing to use for some things, and I had room for it, and it was rather inexpensive when I bought it. :)

10/10, would recommend and buy again. (Whoops!)

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Re:Why Your SSD (Probably) Sucks and What Your Database Can ... by ComputerGuru on Thursday June 20, 2024 @02:35AM (#40735620)
I have various generations of optane I stocked up on for my own small business and home lab use, and fully agree.

I don’t know if you’re aware but Samsung introduced their own version of optane just shortly before Intel killed their product line. It was called Samsung Z and it was prohibitively expensive for some reason, but I didn’t hear that it was officially killed off (though it likely has been).

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Re:Why Your SSD (Probably) Sucks and What Your Database Can ... by ComputerGuru on Thursday June 20, 2024 @03:08PM (#40742120)
I found it deep in my Amazon “saved for later” but it’s no longer available: https://amzn.to/3z7QeGu
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Re:Why Your SSD (Probably) Sucks and What Your Database Can ... by the8472 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @05:56PM (#40732825)
If it's just a few KiB then various NVRAM techs have been slowly creeping forward for decades. But they've never made it to datacenter storage.

https://www.avalanche-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/1Gb-... https://www.everspin.com/spin-transfer-torque-ddr-products

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Re:Why Your SSD (Probably) Sucks and What Your Database Can ... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @10:03PM (#40734201)
Does an SSD with power loss protection achieve the same level of performance, or is optane still better?

Are you taking the durability into account when you say kilobytes?

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