Tuesday, June 5th 2018
Intel Launches Optane 905P in M.2-22110 Form-factor
Intel launched the Optane 905P SSD in the more practical M.2-22110 (110 mm long) form-factor, following up on its early-May launch in the add-in card (AIC) form-factor. These drives take advantage of the PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface and NVMe protocol, and feature the company's latest generation 3D X-point memory. The drive likely comes in capacities of up to 480 GB, with transfer rates of up to 2600 MB/s reads, up to 2200 MB/s writes, and 575k/550k 4K random access speeds. The USP here is endurance, with 10 DWPD, and 1.6 million hours MTBF.
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Looking back, it took about 5 years from the first unveiling of SSDs till they became mainstream, so we're still looking at about 3 more years for XPoint... Still, we got from "accelerator drives", to humongous, power hungry ones to M.2. Pretty big strides if you ask me.