MSI Bundles Optane SSD with Selected Series 200 Motherboards

Published 2017-04-25 10:12 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#5424673

xIcarus

2017-04-26 14:31

$50 for 16GB? Oh my word. Can almost get RAM with that money.

#5424674

Undying

2017-04-26 14:34

Just get a regular SSD and leave Intel in their own world.

#5424686

xIcarus

2017-04-26 15:00

Oh I wasn't planning on getting one of these ridicules. I'm just baffled by the price. Rather take like a TB regular SSD instead of 256GB of that thing (should be similar in price from what I reckon). I'm not up to date on these Optane things, what's their target market/use case exactly?

#5424713

Agent-A01

2017-04-26 15:57

Oh I wasn't planning on getting one of these ridicules. I'm just baffled by the price. Rather take like a TB regular SSD instead of 256GB of that thing (should be similar in price from what I reckon). I'm not up to date on these Optane things, what's their target market/use case exactly?

Latency sensitive applications. Optane in the consumer market is mainly for HDDs or low performance SSDs. Most consumers here won't have use for it. But the latency is 100x better than any SSDs out there.

#5424715

Denial

2017-04-26 16:03

Latency sensitive applications. Optane in the consumer market is mainly for HDDs or low performance SSDs. Most consumers here won't have use for it. But the latency is 100x better than any SSDs out there.

It's also way faster with smaller transfers - good for certain database workloads. http://images.anandtech.com/doci/11209/rr-size-sweep.png

If your workload matches its strengths, the P4800X offers performance that cannot currently be provided by any other storage product. This means high throughput random access, as well as very strict latency requirements - the results Optane achieves for it's quality of service for latency on both reads and writes, especially in heavy environments with a mixed read/write workload, is a significant margin ahead of anything available on the market. At 50/50 reads/writes, latency QoS for the DC P4800X is 30x better than the competition

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11209/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-review-a-deep-dive-into-3d-xpoint-enterprise-performance/8 Not to mention that it's roughly 3x longer endurance. But yeah, its like you said, there is a market for Optane its just not one that any of us care about.

#5424981

xIcarus

2017-04-27 07:55

Hmm that's interesting. Thanks for the info both of you.