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A requiem for #Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the #RAM price crunch
Things might have been different if it were launched today. The shift from #AI training to inference has driven tremendous demand for #DRAM and #NAND flash. In fact, the same properties that made Optane a niche product a few years ago would have made it ideally suited to these write intensive AI workloads.
https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/29/a-requiem-for-optane-intels-kv-cache-killer-that-could-have-eased-the-ram-price-crunch/5280063

A requiem for #Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the #RAM price crunch
Things might have been different if it were launched today. The shift from #AI training to inference has driven tremendous demand for #DRAM and #NAND flash. In fact, the same properties that made Optane a niche product a few years ago would have made it ideally suited to these write intensive AI workloads.
https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/29/a-requiem-for-optane-intels-kv-cache-killer-that-could-have-eased-the-ram-price-crunch/5280063

well who has 2 thumbs and snagged a deal on a 32GB #Optane stick to upgrade the 16GB one in his laptop for more desperately-needed swap space, and forgot that the second m.2 slot is a 2242 slot, not a 2280 slot?? 😒

well who has 2 thumbs and snagged a deal on a 32GB #Optane stick to upgrade the 16GB one in his laptop for more desperately-needed swap space, and forgot that the second m.2 slot is a 2242 slot, not a 2280 slot?? 😒

An easy tip for extending your #dram. A 16gb Optane memory can still be had for $10 to $15 dollars. Do you also have either an extra m.2 slot, or a 1x pcie slot (plus an m.2 to pcie 1x adaptor for about $5) on your motherboard? Add a dedicated swap (#Linux, and up your swapiness) or create a dedicated virtual memory drive on #Windows. This can pull back up to 8gb of #ram for about $20. To put that in perspective, a single 8gb ddr5 stick is approaching $100 soon! #optane

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-was-the-most-promising-ssd-alternative-and-it-vanished-overnight/

An easy tip for extending your #dram. A 16gb Optane memory can still be had for $10 to $15 dollars. Do you also have either an extra m.2 slot, or a 1x pcie slot (plus an m.2 to pcie 1x adaptor for about $5) on your motherboard? Add a dedicated swap (#Linux, and up your swapiness) or create a dedicated virtual memory drive on #Windows. This can pull back up to 8gb of #ram for about $20. To put that in perspective, a single 8gb ddr5 stick is approaching $100 soon! #optane

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-was-the-most-promising-ssd-alternative-and-it-vanished-overnight/

Has anyone got experience with Intel Optane memory?

The hard drive on my HP laptop is a regular SSD with a smaller Intel Optane drive integrated into it. The Optane is where the OS (Windows 10) is installed and is used to quickly retrieve files from the SSD and so forth.

The Optane drive recently malfunctioned and became unreadable. The SSD portion (where all my files are stored) seems to be intact—at least, it's reading error free when I run a disk check. But with the optane malfunctioning, when I turn on the computer it tells me there is no operating system installed, so I have no way to access the "good" part of the harddrive.

From what I've read online, the only way to get the computer working again is to switch off Intel Optane and install a new operating system directly onto the SSD. But if I do this, the entire hard drive gets formatted, and I lose all of my files.

I'm not good with this stuff. Is there any way to recover my files? Unfortunately my backup system failed too and I've lost 6 months of art and academic work 😢

#inteloptane #optane #HP #laptop #techsupport #techhelp #windows10 #windows #intel #harddrive

Has anyone got experience with Intel Optane memory?

The hard drive on my HP laptop is a regular SSD with a smaller Intel Optane drive integrated into it. The Optane is where the OS (Windows 10) is installed and is used to quickly retrieve files from the SSD and so forth.

The Optane drive recently malfunctioned and became unreadable. The SSD portion (where all my files are stored) seems to be intact—at least, it's reading error free when I run a disk check. But with the optane malfunctioning, when I turn on the computer it tells me there is no operating system installed, so I have no way to access the "good" part of the harddrive.

From what I've read online, the only way to get the computer working again is to switch off Intel Optane and install a new operating system directly onto the SSD. But if I do this, the entire hard drive gets formatted, and I lose all of my files.

I'm not good with this stuff. Is there any way to recover my files? Unfortunately my backup system failed too and I've lost 6 months of art and academic work 😢

#inteloptane #optane #HP #laptop #techsupport #techhelp #windows10 #windows #intel #harddrive

Intel #Optane P1600X 118GB sold out everywhere when I finally got a little spare $ to pick one up before reinstalling the Proxmox box it would go into :(

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Avec #ZFS le ZIL/SLOG se prend toutes les écritures (quasiment aucune lecture sauf crash), mais n'a pas besoin d'être volumineux.

J'ai opté pour des #Optane en #3DXpoint qui ont une endurance à l'écriture sans commune mesure avec la flash. On trouve des 16Go pour une dizaine d'euros... format M.2 en NVMe.

Ce n'est plus fabriqué, mais j'ai constitué un petit stock d'avance vu le prix ;)

https://www.intel.fr/content/www/fr/fr/products/sku/135581/intel-optane-memory-m10-series-16gb-m-2-80mm-pcie-3-0-20nm-3d-xpoint/specifications.html

@pb

Avec #ZFS le ZIL/SLOG se prend toutes les écritures (quasiment aucune lecture sauf crash), mais n'a pas besoin d'être volumineux.

J'ai opté pour des #Optane en #3DXpoint qui ont une endurance à l'écriture sans commune mesure avec la flash. On trouve des 16Go pour une dizaine d'euros... format M.2 en NVMe.

Ce n'est plus fabriqué, mais j'ai constitué un petit stock d'avance vu le prix ;)

https://www.intel.fr/content/www/fr/fr/products/sku/135581/intel-optane-memory-m10-series-16gb-m-2-80mm-pcie-3-0-20nm-3d-xpoint/specifications.html

#Intel #Optane (3D XPoint memory) is incredible. I tested out an Optane H20 hybrid drive (1TB QLC, 32GB Xpoint), and while the streaming performance of XPoint was just okay (~1.5 GB/~900 MB), the IOPS were insane! 14x more than my brand-new 2TB #Solidigm drive!

Though I ran into difficulty accessing both drives of the H20, I decided to go with a standalone Optane drive. Scored a pair of 16GB M10's on eBay for $12.

This article details how to set up an Optane LVMCache:

https://codenotary.com/blog/ubuntu-how-to-use-intel-optane-memory-for-ssd-caching

#Intel #Optane (3D XPoint memory) is incredible. I tested out an Optane H20 hybrid drive (1TB QLC, 32GB Xpoint), and while the streaming performance of XPoint was just okay (~1.5 GB/~900 MB), the IOPS were insane! 14x more than my brand-new 2TB #Solidigm drive!

Though I ran into difficulty accessing both drives of the H20, I decided to go with a standalone Optane drive. Scored a pair of 16GB M10's on eBay for $12.

This article details how to set up an Optane LVMCache:

https://codenotary.com/blog/ubuntu-how-to-use-intel-optane-memory-for-ssd-caching

I ran some benchmarks on a pair of NVMe hard drives and wow, #Intel #Optane is incredible!

This 2TB #Solidigm Plus drive (#Hynix, formerly Intel) streams data really well, beating the 32GB Optane on the H20, but with small random read+write ops, Optane annihilates it with nearly 14x the IOPS!?

It's a darn shame that Intel discontinued X-point memory. This stuff is magic.

I ran some benchmarks on a pair of NVMe hard drives and wow, #Intel #Optane is incredible!

This 2TB #Solidigm Plus drive (#Hynix, formerly Intel) streams data really well, beating the 32GB Optane on the H20, but with small random read+write ops, Optane annihilates it with nearly 14x the IOPS!?

It's a darn shame that Intel discontinued X-point memory. This stuff is magic.

Well I finally got all the parts in the mail needed to #refurbish this #ThinkPad L490 machine. 🎉

Unfortunately it does feature a 720p TN panel (a dramatically improved TN panel I should say), and a flawed M.2 connector. It accepts a #PCIe 3.0x4 drive, but it actually drops 2 of the PCIe lanes. Ordinarily that would be fine, but the M.2 drive I'm using is an #Optane H20, which acts as a PCIe 3.0x2x2 device: 1TB NVMe drive on the first 2x lanes and a 32GB Optane on the 2nd 2x lanes. 🤔

Well I finally got all the parts in the mail needed to #refurbish this #ThinkPad L490 machine. 🎉

Unfortunately it does feature a 720p TN panel (a dramatically improved TN panel I should say), and a flawed M.2 connector. It accepts a #PCIe 3.0x4 drive, but it actually drops 2 of the PCIe lanes. Ordinarily that would be fine, but the M.2 drive I'm using is an #Optane H20, which acts as a PCIe 3.0x2x2 device: 1TB NVMe drive on the first 2x lanes and a 32GB Optane on the 2nd 2x lanes. 🤔

Intel Optane P5810X: Womöglich eine der letzten SSDs dieser Art https://www.computerbase.de/2022-11/intel-optane-p5810x-womoeglich-eine-der-letzten-ssds-dieser-art/ #Intel #Optane #SSD

Intel Optane P5810X: Womöglich eine der letzten SSDs dieser Art https://www.computerbase.de/2022-11/intel-optane-p5810x-womoeglich-eine-der-letzten-ssds-dieser-art/ #Intel #Optane #SSD

Last week #Intel killed Optane. Today, #Kioxia, #Everspin announce comparable tech

They will fail too, #Optane was never loved and dead born child.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220801005862/en/Kioxia-Launches-Second-Generation-of-High-Performance-Cost-Effective-XL-FLASH%E2%84%A2-Storage-Class-Memory-Solution/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220801005856/en/Everspin-Announces-New-STT-MRAM-EM128LX-xSPI-Memory

#Intel #Optane half billion in the minus

Via
https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-sec-filings/content/0000050863-22-000007/intc-20211225.htm

Source
https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/02/04/optanes-2020-half-billion-dollar-operating-loss/

Intel’s Optane H20 is the latest attempt at “hybrid” laptop storage - Enlarge / The new Intel H20 looks like a standard NVMe SSD—but it packs both slow... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765707 #hybridssd #3dxpoint #storage #optane #intel #tech #qlc #ssd

Intel’s 3rd-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs offer 16-bit FPU processing - Intel's focus on AI architecture is so deep tha... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1684956 #biz&it #optane #intel #tech #xeon #ai

Episode 10 of #HardwareAddicts has dropped! We discuss #Intel 10th Gen CPUs, Intel's #Optane, our kitchen #tech projects and some #gaming nostalgia with the #NeoGeo Mini.

In #CameraCorner, Wendy explains how sensors on #cameras capture color.

https://hardwareaddicts.org/10