I ordered the 32gb optane memory, as I dont really want to fill up my pc with loads of drives and increasing my energy bills. Also my next upgrade hopefully will be a larger storage drive, so depending how well the optane speeds up the hard drive, it will be a larger ssd or hdd for the storage drive on my list.
My board has 2 m2 slots but if I use the slot that is easy to get to, the 2nd pcie 16x slot gets disabled and the other slot is partly underneath the heatsink. So hopefully I will be able to wiggle it in without removing the cpu heatsink.
The optane memory only woks with 7th/8th gen intel systems (the version for amd is called "
StoreMI"), you can only select what drive you want it speed up with 370 motherboards or higher, oh yeah it only works on windows10.... Why do manufactures do this hey, as I think more people would benefit using optane on older slower systems.
Exactly this - a 32gb Optane M2 costs around £48 - for £12 more you could have a 480gb ssd
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £68.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
I was looking at the 1tb version of this and the price is very tempting and I will look at this again if the optane is rubbish.. But years ago ssd speeds wernt great at reading compressed data as they compressed the data to acheve the fast read speeds and games are already are compressed. So I dont know if this applies to cheap ssd drives?
They certainly won't speed up SSDs (if anything they will increase latency as another layer to "go through"), and even the claimed benchmarks for HDD's are generally flawed/biased.
Yes Optane will work to some degree (in the same way the Seagate hybrid drives do - e.g. browsing hard drives etc are quicker as directory information is cached), but you will be disappointed if you expect it to make much difference to game load times - 32GB is barely enough to cache 1 game these days, let alone a whole hard drive full.
Apparently 32gb is plenty even for huge hdds, as it only stores the stuff you access mostly and people say that they do speed up the normal sata ssd drive as the optane is much faster at reading as the sata3 controller has a limit of about 500mb/s
Look at a few reviews of optane guys,, I thought what a load of toss, but as I read up on it more it started sounding good,, but I will let you guys know if its rubbish or not. hopefully not, but knowing my luck it will be.