Optane "memory" worth it?

Efour · 5 Mar 2019 at 15:30

I might have a spare m2slot
Is it worth using for an optane module?

Apone70 · 5 Mar 2019 at 23:55

It does help with a normal HD, OC3D has got a good review on youtube.

MaXxBoulton · 6 Mar 2019 at 11:09

Efour said:
I might have a spare m2slot
Is it worth using for an optane module?

no, its just a boost drive. if your running an SSD then your fine.
if your not running an SSD then for the same cost buy a bigger SSD and run an ssd lol.

there is a few situations where running boot SSD, or a cache drive dose benefit

JasonM · 7 Mar 2019 at 03:07

It will help a lot with a regular HDD. The downside however is if the Optane module fails you will corrupt all data, including that of the HDD, at least this is how I understand it anyway.

edscdk · 7 Mar 2019 at 05:55

Not from the videos I have seen

Minstadave · 7 Mar 2019 at 07:16

Optane is a solution looking for a problem. Certainly in the consumer space anyway.

craigyhay · 7 Mar 2019 at 09:29

not really worth the money better spending you money upgrading something else, even more so if you have an ssd

Efour · 7 Mar 2019 at 15:18

Yes total waste of time. I'll just leave the 3rd slot for a future upgrade.
Thx

willhub · 8 Mar 2019 at 14:40

Just get an NVMe drive.

Efour · 9 Mar 2019 at 20:20

Don't worry I did I had a 3rd slot
I'll get another 2tb one and never connect a sata cable again

MaXxBoulton · 9 Mar 2019 at 21:47

it is the future

Minstadave · 9 Mar 2019 at 22:17

MaXxBoulton said:
it is the future

What is? Optane? It doesn't offer enough over NVME at the moment to be worthwhile. Yes it's latency is lower but that's not really an issue for home users.

CuriousTomCat · 9 Mar 2019 at 22:43

Yes Optane would definately have been worth it 15 years ago when everybody had a slow HDD that needed speeding up. Times have changed because there's a new thing out now called an SSD.

EsaT · 10 Mar 2019 at 09:53

MaXxBoulton said:
it is the future

Of fooling more money out from people for less.
For the price it has way too small capacity.
You could get lot bigger standard SSD for less and have one partition for OS and use rest as big cache for HDD with PrimoCache.

Home use has pretty much absolutely zero use for those high IOPS in mass storage use.
Even STR of NVMe gives very little real world benefit for the price in most uses.

Again volatile DRAM could get replaced at some point by non-volatile memory.
But Optane drive isn't that replacement.

MaXxBoulton · 10 Mar 2019 at 10:55

@EsaT @Minstadave

Flow the conversation.

Efour said:
I'll get another 2tb one and never connect a sata cable again

This is the future

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2019 at 12:49

MaXxBoulton said:
@EsaT @Minstadave

Flow the conversation.

Maybe you should post less vague posts with little content. Then we could "flow" the conversation a little easier

MaXxBoulton · 10 Mar 2019 at 13:23

Minstadave said:
Then we could "flow" the conversation a little easier

Read the thread and flow of messages before posting and you would be upto date on what have been posted.

willhub · 10 Mar 2019 at 14:02

MaXxBoulton said:
Read the thread and flow of messages before posting and you would be upto date on what have been posted.

Your flow is blocked

BongoHunter · 10 Mar 2019 at 14:10

I think the only Optane products worth getting at the moment are the 900/905p - but only really worth it for non gaming power user type stuff like intense data analysis, lots of VMs, or stuff that's really really heavy on disk IO.

Minstadave · 10 Mar 2019 at 14:35

MaXxBoulton said:
Read the thread and flow of messages before posting and you would be upto date on what have been posted.

I think your rudimentary grasp of the English language makes it a little challenging to "flow" you.

I do agree however that SATAs days are limited, but M2 seems a right bodge job as a replacement.