Intel announces 144-layer NAND and successor to 660p SSD

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I may be not reading enough, but i still do not get the real difference for servers or consumers of optane versus normal top line SSD
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Maybe I'm blind, but what kind of successor will the 660p have? Optane, or what? All that marketing stuff... "Optane is a unique combination of materials, structure and performance that other current memory and storage technologies cannot match" blablablah... As a cache für HDDs it might be interesting, but in terms of price/performance in realworld applications for the 'normal/standard user'(!!!), it makes no real sense for me. Why? Cause e.g. the Intel Optane 900P 480GB is just soo expensive (77.5cent/GB on mindfactory) and too small in capacity to serve as single system drive. The 2TB 660p with less then 9.5cent per GB(!) is totally enough for standard daily use (190 bucks for a 2TB NVME-disk as well on mindfactory). The Idea of the H10-Series could be a decent attempt, to unite the best of both worlds, but with a present max. capacity of 1TB for 160€ it's still (a bit) less interesting than a 660P-drive of equal capacity. At enterprise levels thats a totally different thing - especially cause they have way more money to buy what they need... Just my 2 cents...
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There is dedicated Optane SSD - 800p series. 118 GB for what NAND SSD priced for 120 GB just 8 years ago.