Intel Optane?

willhub · 18 Apr 2018 at 12:23

I'm confused, apparently it's not an SSD and it's not RAM but an in between? Is it like a super fast page file replacement? But it's also only compatible with 7th Gen +?

mmj_uk · 18 Apr 2018 at 13:46

As I understand it it's just like a Hybrid drive where you have a small SSD for caching the most commonly used files etc.

Liquid_Entity · 31 Aug 2018 at 12:12

Just been to Canary Wharf and Intel's Innovation Labs. Saw some Optane in use on a laptop. Very fast, speeds up your laptop twice as fast to boot and load up anything

willhub · 31 Aug 2018 at 13:42

Liquid_Entity said:
Just been to Canary Wharf and Intel's Innovation Labs. Saw some Optane in use on a laptop. Very fast, speeds up your laptop twice as fast to boot and load up anything

Can't imagine it my laptop boots 5 seconds. Can't I stuff some optane in it ? Sounds like a hybrid SSD, SSD drive? Like SSD with super fast SSD cache ?

ViRuS2k · 31 Aug 2018 at 15:21

I have the 32gb version of the intel optane drive and i cant anymore seem to get it configured correctly to be able to enable it though i can turn that drive into a standard ssd hdd by creating a formated partion within windows 10 lol

TheVoice · 31 Aug 2018 at 15:48

Liquid_Entity said:
Just been to Canary Wharf and Intel's Innovation Labs. Saw some Optane in use on a laptop. Very fast, speeds up your laptop twice as fast to boot and load up anything

Twice as fast as what? It's totally meaningless unless there's some sort of comparison being made here.

Liquid_Entity · 31 Aug 2018 at 16:38

They had 2 windows 10 machines next to each other exactly same image. 1 with Optane the other without and they did a restart. The Optane one booted twice as fast and loaded up all the apps it had while the other one was still booting up.

Armageus · 31 Aug 2018 at 16:42

Liquid_Entity said:
They had 2 windows 10 machines next to each other exactly same image. 1 with Optane the other without and they did a restart. The Optane one booted twice as fast and loaded up all the apps it had while the other one was still booting up.

And did the non-optane one have a hard drive or the same amount of ram?

If it's an intel provided demo, don't believe any of it, unless you've seen the specs yourself
https://semiaccurate.com/2017/03/27/intel-crosses-unacceptable-ethical-line/

Liquid_Entity · 31 Aug 2018 at 16:45

Exactly the same spec, drives, dram but the Optane machine had 16gb Optane ram in. Nothing to do with an ssd.

Armageus · 31 Aug 2018 at 16:48

Liquid_Entity said:
Exactly the same spec, drives, dram but the Optane machine had 16gb Optane ram in. Nothing to do with an ssd.

If they both had hard drives, then an Optane one will boot up faster - it's essentially a caching SSD module

* The Server Optane tech - X-Point is different, in that it is meant to hybrid ram/storage that fits in an existing RAM slot, so you can have huge amounts of Flash based RAM *

David Bisset · 5 Sep 2018 at 08:03

Indeed the Intel demo is using it as an sshd equivalent with similar performance gains by caching a slow disk. Compared to an SSD it does not show the gains which is why this isn't what they compare with. However given the price I can't see the point at the moment given you'll get an SSD well before considering this.

Liquid_Entity · 5 Sep 2018 at 08:56

I guess they pulled the wool over my eyes then