RavenMaster:

Optane was DOA thanks to M.2 NVMe SSD's

No, different usage 😉 If you are just playing games or playing cinebench, Optane is not for you 😉 I'm not downgrading my 3x optane 900p, so next step is Optane P5800x. 900p is working great with Amd 5900x and Asus Dark Hero, so can't wait for pci-e 4.0 Optane 🙂

nizzen:

No, different usage 😉 If you are just playing games or playing cinebench, Optane is not for you 😉 I'm not downgrading my 3x optane 900p, so next step is Optane P5800x. 900p is working great with Amd 5900x and Asus Dark Hero, so can't wait for pci-e 4.0 Optane 🙂

This is correct. I have a workstation where I have Visual Studio, Unity and a bunch of VMs running most of the time and I also build a LOT of custom OS install images for people (ripping out MS bloat, adding drivers and updates .....) so I am hammering disk IO. Optane makes sense here. For a gamer they have tested the 905P and you will get faster load times but its not super dramatic, you might not even notice.

Astyanax:

You weren't their market.

Oh really. Who was then?

geogan:

Oh really. Who was then?

Team workstation for the most part. Anything that hammers a drive with lots of simultaneous small reads and writes would benefit from Optane technology. It helps a regular system but not on a level that justifies the price, not even close.

I thought they discontinued optane years ago?

they should discount them,not discontinue.they still would make a very good drive.I like h10 but 32+1tb option is the best atm and frankly it's not that great.get me 120gb of optane cache,or 80gb at least,+ 2tb qlc (would actually prefer this over 1tb tlc in that config) and we're talking. noone wants to waste a nvme slot for a small ass drive,they're precious as even 3 of them require an expensive mobo. optane was never about write speeds,or sequential.

cucaulay malkin:

they should discount them,not discontinue.they still would make a very good drive.I like h10 but 32+1tb option is the best atm and frankly it's not that great.get me 120gb of optane cache,or 80gb at least,+ 2tb qlc (would actually prefer this over 1tb tlc in that config) and we're talking. noone wants to waste a nvme slot for a small ass drive,they're precious as even 3 of them require an expensive mobo. optane was never about write speeds,or sequential.

The form factor was a huge limiting factor. The largest M.2 drive required a 22110 port which excluded all laptops. There were only a few laptops ever with 22110 ports and all of them were SATA only. In a mobile workstation it would have been great to use the 380GB 905P and a 4TB SATA drive for data but that was simply impossible. In desktop there was the option to use PCIe Optane drives up to 1.5 TB but for the price it was almost impossible to justify as any other upgrade would get more bang for the $. Optane will probably be consumer ready around gen 3 or 4, it was insane to try and sell gen 1 to consumers. Even for workstations gen 1 is a hard sell.

nosirrahx:

The form factor was a huge limiting factor. The largest M.2 drive required a 22110 port which excluded all laptops. There were only a few laptops ever with 22110 ports and all of them were SATA only. In a mobile workstation it would have been great to use the 380GB 905P and a 4TB SATA drive for data but that was simply impossible. In desktop there was the option to use PCIe Optane drives up to 1.5 TB but for the price it was almost impossible to justify as any other upgrade would get more bang for the $. Optane will probably be consumer ready around gen 3 or 4, it was insane to try and sell gen 1 to consumers. Even for workstations gen 1 is a hard sell.

I still want it,gen4 nvmes are closing the gap with near 100mb/s reads but frankly it'll be another generation of pcie before they come clos.this thing is hitting 300mb/s reads consistently when used as an os drive https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8157/intel-optane-memory-32gb-2-nvme-ssd-review/index.html#Synthetic-Benchmarks-CrystalDiskMark-and-AS-SSD [SPOILER="pics"] https://static.tweaktown.com/content/8/1/8157_30_intel-optane-memory-32gb-2-nvme-ssd-review.pnghttps://static.tweaktown.com/content/8/1/8157_21_intel-optane-memory-32gb-2-nvme-ssd-review.pnghttps://static.tweaktown.com/content/8/1/8157_25_intel-optane-memory-32gb-2-nvme-ssd-review.png[/SPOILER] those 32g sticks are not only bad value gb/$, I don't wanna waste a nvme slot for a 32g drive either,since it's not enough to handle OS alone. that h10 32+512tho,it might be a neat OS drive tbh if you're not moving big amount of data back and forth. 4k R is still 2x what 980 Pro can deliver. https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/4K-Random-Peformance.png