Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
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Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
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Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#2I just love this stuff! Storage minded for 20 years... all other tech aside, storage is what gets me up until sunrise researching... if 2017 sees this kind of tech, I'll be smitten :-D
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#3If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#4I just love this stuff! Storage minded for 20 years... all other tech aside, storage is what gets me up until sunrise researching... if 2017 sees this kind of tech, I'll be smitten :-D
Won't there come a time when 1000x speed increase will still be slow?
The applications will mostly be on heavy data side like medical research and weather patterns, but it could also involve 3D photogrammetry taking in a trillion points.
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#5This will change deeply how we make desktop applications, as well as database management systems.
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#6The 1,000x speed is so ridiculously misleading. It's basically comparing it to the slowest microSD on Earth...from a few years ago. I doubt the speed will be more than a few times faster than the current fastest NVMe SSDs (if that), and it will probably be even more expensive per Gbps (and per GB, too) than SSDs are. But it could still find some success in niche markets initially, if it has much better endurance and other features that may be interesting to some enterprise customers.
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#7This will change deeply how we make desktop applications, as well as database management systems.
I'm almost afraid to see what hardware will look like in 10 years.
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#8The 1,000x speed is so ridiculously misleading. It's basically comparing it to the slowest microSD on Earth...from a few years ago. I doubt the speed will be more than a few times faster than the current fastest NVMe SSDs (if that), and it will probably be even more expensive per Gbps (and per GB, too) than SSDs are. But it could still find some success in niche markets initially, if it has much better endurance and…
Yeah that's what I was thinking too... If it's so ridiculously fast, why's it on PCIe x4? Aren't we already getting close to saturating that many lanes with existing PCIe SSDs?
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#91,000x performance, but they are introducing it with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface? That is suspicious. And then they are going to follow with a lower cost PCIe 3.0 x2 version? (That they still label as an Enthusiast / Workstation product?) I wonder if they are aggressively segmenting the market so that you have to pay a lot for the "enterprise" product to get the full performance. Or, alternatively, if the real world performance is nowhere near the 1000x they keep talking about.
I wonder if they will position these as replacements for you SSD, or if they are going to pitch them as a caching layer they way they dabbled in hybrid SSD/HDD approaches.
Re: Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
#10If SSDs and RAM reach the same speeds, could RAM become obsolete? If so, architecture of computers will change drastically.
One of the slides mentioned it as a technology that can "serve as system memory and storage."