Intel Optane

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Hi, just wanted to ask whether upcoming optane products will be exclusive to Intel boards, or whether they will be available to use with amd based systems, since I like the performance increase they offer especially in latency and boot times but am also wanting to build A pc on a 1700x
 
The issue I have is that it started as a reasonably good idea, being in a DIMM form factor and designed to blur the line between storage and ram.

However it's been diluted down and now is just another reinvention of the caching SSD, albeit now proprietary, expensive, locked to a specific platform/chipset and likely to die a slow and painful death.
 
I'm running a 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 in a Angelbird Wings PX1 just now and its beast at 1500MBs write and 3000MBs read, fair enough they aren't the cheapest of components for a M.2 approach but Optane is looking like all talk and no substance for performance from all accounts and its limited to ****. Shocking bad from Intel imo.
 
As far as I can tell this is just an evolution of the Smart Response Technology Intel introduced in 2011 for the Z68 chipset, however now instead of allowing a SATA/MSATA drive to act as a cache for a HDD or HDD RAID it lets an M.2 drive do it.

Personally I think it's going to be super niche as it's only really of benefit to people who just want one big mechanical disk appearing in Windows. Everyone else would be better booting from an SSD of some kind.
 
^wont work with any chipset, I believe the technology is only currently on the 7Xxx series Intel CPUs and will likely stay that way.
 
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