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The Intel Optane SSD 800p (58GB & 118GB) Review: Almost The Right Size
Intel's first Optane products hit the market almost a year ago, putting the much-awaited 3D XPoint memory in the hands of consumers. Today, Intel broadens that family with the Optane SSD 800p, pushing the Optane brand closer to the mainstream.
The new Optane SSD 800p is an M.2 NVMe SSD using Intel's 3D XPoint memory instead of flash memory. The 800p is based on the same hardware platform as last year's Optane Memory M.2 drive, which was intended primarily for caching purposes (but could also be used as a boot drive with a sufficiently small operating system). That means the 800p uses a PCIe 3 x2 link and Intel's first-generation 3D XPoint memory—but more of it, with usable capacities of 58GB and 118GB compared to just 16GB and 32GB from last year's Optane Memory. The PCB layout has been tweaked and the sticker on the drive no longer has a foil layer to act as a heatspreader, but the most significant design changes are to the drive firmware, which now supports power management including a low power idle state.
Prices are $129 and $199.
Also at ZDNet.
Previously: First Intel Optane 3D XPoint SSD Released: 375 GB for $1520
Intel Announces Optane 16 GB and 32 GB M.2 Modules
Intel Announces the Optane SSD 900P: Cheaper 3D XPoint for Desktops
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2018, @07:17PM (1 child)
Where's the +1 incoherent rambling mod?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 12 2018, @08:35PM
I think he's referencing the "rowhammer" attacks that plague DDR3 and DDR4 DRAM modules. And how the CEO apparently sold all the stock he was legally allowed to right before news about the Spectre and Meltdown vulns dropped.
Dr. Rockso here (he does koh-KAAAAYNNNNNNEEEE! Chchchchchchyeeee~ah!) appears to be another troll along the lines of Ethanol-Fueled; actually, he looks like Eth and Arik had violent sweaty mansex in a vat of CRISPR polymerases and this was the result. *Can* we call him Dr. Rockso from now on? Because that mental image is fucking hilarious.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...