AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

Re:AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in ... by sethhochberg on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:09PM (#50369329)

Having a very low latency, durable write destination is a superpower for lots of database architectures (or things that share architectural details with databases, like some filesystems).

Optane had much lower latency than other types of durable storage, and also had very good endurance compared to NAND.

At a prior employer, we made extensive use of them as ZFS SLOG drives for large database servers. They made fsync very inexpensive.

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Re:AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in ... by mickeyp on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:36PM (#50369688)

Yep. I use a P4800X for ZFS special vdev. It's a monster. The thing has write endurance for many petabytes of write. The queue depth alone means sustained reads and writes are... sustained. Try that with a normal SSD/NVME.

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Re:AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in ... by CodesInChaos on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:22PM (#50371748)

And instead of upgrading latency from NVMe SSDs to Optane, we downgraded to EBS.

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Re:AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in ... by mort96 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:51PM (#50373067)

Yeah that's the fast persistent cache layer more or less

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