You Can Now Purchase Intel's Optane Memory Accelerator

[Raevenlord]

In case Intel's DC P4800X SSD (you know, the Optane-based SSD that sells for $1,520 for 375 GB) is too expensive for your wallet, Intel has now announced availability of the much more cost-effective Optane Memory accelerator, which is available in 16GB or 32GB single-sided M.2 2280 form factor drives. Just keep in mind that while you can order yours today, it's not meant to ship out until April 29th - but that's not too far off in any case.

If you're thinking of integrating one of these babies on your system (which actually do wonders for mechanical drives' performance, it seems, putting out 1.4GB/s data transfer speeds, as well as a 204MB/s low 4K read performance), just keep in mind compatibility is... iffy, as in, limited to the latest and greatest platform Intel has to offer. If you're not rocking something better than a Kaby Lake i3, and a 200 series chipset, you're out of luck. This seems like a strange occurrence, given that users with older, mechanical drive-based systems were looking to reap the greatest benefits from installing one of these puppies into their system, but this choice from Intel looks to stand more on platform support and the requirements of having such a technology in place than a way of artificially limiting compatibility. The 16GB model MEMPEK1W016GAXT starts at $45, and the 32GB model is expected to go for around $77.



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[RejZoR]

50 people will buy this, because the other few millions will try to use it as boot drive and they just won't be able to figure out the point of hybrid storage systems/accelerators...

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Time to build another fun rig specifically for using this kit. xD

 

[ZoneDymo]

you mean we can....obtain...it?

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

@ZoneDymo I see what u did there xDD Gonna get 2 of it with such a good price for the 16GB stick.

50 people will buy this, because the other few millions will try to use it as boot drive and they just won't be able to figure out the point of hybrid storage systems/accelerators...

I think it's a possibility unless they're already watch some videos about it on YouTube...

 

[RejZoR]

People just don't understand the concept and benefits of the hybrid storage systems. They just known damn useless SSD boot drives because every noob used one and preached to everyone about it.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

if they have SSDs & wanna get Optane, they'll probably be disappointed. Gains in boosting their SSD is very small, microscopic. Only true gain can be seen in synthetic benchmark.

 

[wurschti]

50 people will buy this, because the other few millions will try to use it as boot drive and they just won't be able to figure out the point of hybrid storage systems/accelerators...

these speeds are normally un-optane-able

 

[TheGuruStud]

these speeds are normally un-optane-able

You know where the door is.

 

[Prima.Vera]

The most useless and expensive crap tech ever released.

 

[Caring1]

I have to question why it is called a memory accelerator, when it only boosts drive speeds.
It's basically a cache for drives.

 

[jabbadap]

The most useless and expensive crap tech ever released.

http://physxinfo.com/wiki/Ageia_PhysX_PPU

 

[ERazer]

better off saving cash and just buy ssd

 

[TheGuruStud]

http://physxinfo.com/wiki/Ageia_PhysX_PPU

It had potential, then you know who killed it.

 

[P4-630]

Well, some different prices in my country...
Not that I'm buying but....

 

[Prima.Vera]

Seriously, how is this better than, for example, a 4TB Hybrid drive witch already includes an caching SSD??
http://www.storagereview.com/wd_blue_sshd_4tb_review

 

[jabbadap]

Seriously, how is this better than, for example, a 4TB Hybrid drive witch already includes an caching SSD??
http://www.storagereview.com/wd_blue_sshd_4tb_review

Did you even read that review? That's dead slow compared to this. Have you even looked the reviews of this optane memory drive?
http://www.storagereview.com/intel_optane_memory_review
http://techreport.com/review/31784/intel-32gb-optane-memory-storage-accelerator-reviewed
https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-Optane-Memory-32GB-Review-Faster-Lightning
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11210/the-intel-optane-memory-ssd-review-32gb-of-kaby-lake-caching

Anandtech actually broke theirs while testing.

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

Anyone notice this is 2 bucks a GB? These are far cheaper than i expected given the fact its the PCB/Controller and the XPoint. This leads me to believe the 5 bucks per GB for enterprise is just enterprise premium and we should see consumer XPoint in the 2 bucks per GB or less range in a year or 2!

http://physxinfo.com/wiki/Ageia_PhysX_PPU

that was merged with the GPU and was actually legit tech. This write cache is ridiculously niche especially given the size and lack of practical application. I wouldn't mind a write cache like this for my NAS but OS and file systems haven't evolved enough to catch up to hardware

 

[TheGuruStud]

Anyone notice this is 2 bucks a GB? These are far cheaper than i expected given the fact its the PCB/Controller and the XPoint. This leads me to believe the 5 bucks per GB for enterprise is just enterprise premium and we should see consumer XPoint in the 2 bucks per GB or less range in a year or 2!

But what would I do with 32GB of uselessness?

Microsoft tried this crap in vista (since it was such an unresponsive ram hog) with readyboost using a flash drive. But I don't need it. I can just raid 0 cheap ass SSDs and have a hella cache system.

 

[wurschti]

You know where the door is.

I'll show myself out

 

[jabbadap]

But what would I do with 32GB of uselessness?

Microsoft tried this crap in vista (since it was such an unresponsive ram hog) with readyboost using a flash drive. But I don't need it. I can just raid 0 cheap ass SSDs and have a hella cache system.

I would install linux root partition there and home to other media(If you read the reviews, it works as normal nvme ssd). But yeah as cache, why bother, buy more RAM instead.