A 16gb or 32gb ssd would be worse performance than the Optane drive. Just look at the performance of SD cards or USB memory sticks where you don't have a lot of channels and dies to use.

Compare: Optane - 99.999 percent of operations have a read or write latency below 60000 or 100 000 nanoseconds DDR4 - 15ns Bandwidth: Optane - 2000MB/s DDR4 3866 - 50 000 MB/s ••• 3 (5 / -2 ...

Multiple OEMs are marketing systems as if their total memory loadout is equivalent to their actual DRAM + Optane cache. That's not how this works.

SMART Modular announces its new SMART Kestral PCIe Optane Memory Add-in-Card (AIC) which enables memory expansion and acceleration for data centers.

New joint composable solutions deliver software-defined, low-latency data centers with the ability to pool and orchestrate for DRAM-like data speeds.

Optane, the memory technology pioneered and championed by Intel, has seen its last days. Intel has decided to wind down the technology as part of a refocusing effort. The news came on an earnings ...

Liqid, the world’s leading software company delivering data center composability, today announced it is collaborating with big memory solutions pionee ...