Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
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Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#2Software hasn't improved in 40 years, really... and now hardware is starting its downhill slide as well.
Good grief.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#3Typical intel move. They start something and then kill it shortly after if the new product did not have the massive impact they hoped for. I would not be surprised if they kill the optane enterprise products or simply dont develop a new version and some improvements in ssds will make optane not very interesting as it would not be much better but dramatically more expensive.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#4Software hasn't improved in 40 years, really... and now hardware is starting its downhill slide as well. Good grief.
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Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#5Sounds like 3d-xpoint is not going to live up to its potential. Which is sad, because if it received the same R&D and manufacturing budget that NAND flash does, it could have really been something.
It's tough to break into an established market with a new technology. Battery tech also suffers from this problem. It's hard to challenge Li Ion now, even if you have something theoretically better. The manufacturing advantage is just too strong.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#6Since NAND business was sell to SK Hynix this was expected move.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#7I'd like to express my thoughts on this, from business exec point of view.
Consumer-grade Optane SSDs are not competetive with flash memory, simple as that. On performance and write endurance, flash-based SSD are "good enough", while also much better on cost-per-GB vs Optane. This reduces available market for Optane to gaming enthusiasts and similar customers - a very small slice of the total PC market.
Now, for enterprise markets, best-in-class performance is always in demand, and the product can be (over)priced much higher than on the PC market.
Therefore, it makes total sense to make this move.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#8I'll miss it - we have a Virtualized Windows 2019 Server on it that reboots in 9 seconds. We set it to auto login and it's at the full in the desktop and ready to go.
Hopefully Micron will introduce an equivalent version.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#9Software hasn't improved in 40 years, really... and now hardware is starting its downhill slide as well. Good grief.
I remember frequent “System Error Type 11”s from 20 years ago, and (almost!) nothing even equivalent to that in the last decade.
Software has improved a lot, even if UI responsiveness hasn’t.
Re: Intel Kills Off All Optane-Only SSDs for Consumers, No Replacements Planned
#10Sad but not surprised. Optane was simply too expensive for consumer market.
I was really excited by its 2nd Gen though [1], much closer to what Intel originally promised with Optane. And Read Write Speed that finally rivals other SSDs. I was hoping they would release a Consumer versions so we could do a benchmark against other PCI-E 4.0 SSD so we could finally settle the false assumption that Random Read is everything.
[1] https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-optane-p5800x-100-dwp...