Still quite small capacity. Likely costs an arm, a leg, and a kidney as well.

Wasn't optane supposed to be 1000x faster than ssds? Now it's run of the mill nvme speeds? Talk about hype.

Wasn't optane supposed to be 1000x faster than ssds? Now it's run of the mill nvme speeds? Talk about hype.

Supposedly it's supposed to be much faster in smaller files(4k and lower) but yet to see any evidence of that. Disappointing. It will cost a ton too. Edit:

550,000 IOPS 4K random reads, and up to 500,000 IOPS 4K random write

Doesn't say QD1 so i assume QD32. QD32 doesn't matter much for normal use, mainly for enterprise applications. It's pretty good there, 960 pro is like 440read/360 write IOPS. QD1 is most important but this will most likely be aimed at enterprise market.

Probably one individual cell is 1000x faster, but SSD-s have learned to parallelize operations (through their amazingly powerful controllers) so the difference has been reduced to pretty much nothing. Write 1000 things sequentially = Write 1000 things at once 1000 times slower. I'm sure the Enterprise will buy this "outdated-before-launch" stuff nevertheless, just because it has the "Intel" name on it. Zzzzzzzzzz....

Dare I ask how much?

Still quite small capacity. Likely costs an arm, a leg, and a kidney as well.

Good thing I have a spare in all three of those appendages