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by now it's become more or less mainstream to have a solid state drive

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or SSD in your computer or even your phone and why not with their Fast

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Response times and more recently falling

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costs they're often recommended as the best single upgrade the average user can

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make to an older machine but most ssds

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are based on a storage technology called nand flash which has actually been

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around for decades now and as we demand

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faster speeds and storage solutions that can handle tons of requests at once

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which is especially important for all those cloud-based services that we love

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this aging technology will become more

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and more of a bottleneck enter Intel opan a new

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fundamentally different storage Tech based on what Intel is calling 3 Cross

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Point although they're treating exactly

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what sorts of materials they're using in 3D Cross Point and how they're arranged

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as uh top secret what I can tell you is

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that optain has a few major advantages

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first up is latency the delay between an

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IO request and the drive acting on it

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although obtains latency isn't as low as the cash on your CPU or as low as your

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system RAM it is much lower than any of

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these existing storage Technologies and

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yet obtains data density is much higher

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than RAM meaning that it can be deployed

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as either RAM likee working memory or

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even as longer term storage due to its

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combination of quick access times and

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high capacities on the subject of using optained for

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storage to be clear it won't be replacing the mechanical hard drive

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anytime soon but unlike RAM its

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nonvolatility means that it can retain

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data for a relatively long time without

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a constant supply of power and it's faster than even the fastest nand ssds

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across the board including in the small

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random reads and writs at low Q depths that account for the bulk of the average

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person's usage not just in cherry-picked

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benchmarks that don't reflect the real world in fact optane can hit close to

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100,000 iops at a q depth of one and

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over quadruple that at around Q depth 8

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not Q depths of 32 which many SSD makers

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advertise but which virtually never occur in real life optain also provides

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much better quality of service meaning that random dips in performance are far

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less common and it can handle many more transactions per second so performance

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doesn't degrade nearly as much even when the drive is getting slammed with IO

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requests this could end up being very important on the server and Cloud side

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of things meaning like uh video messages

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or controller inputs in Cloud games

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could go in and out more quickly and reliably if these Enterprises started

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using opan and it looks like the technology should catch on due to its

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lower cost per transaction op's ability to be used as

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high-capacity RAM could also make it a compelling solution for things like

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machine learning think about developing software for self-driving cars for

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example and scientific research where having having a large pool of working

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memory is more important than having it be as fast as

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possible but line is come on I'm not a

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scientist researching artificial intelligence I just want to know how I

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can get this stuff in my home battle station well right now the only optained

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product available on the consumer level is an m.2 optained cache solution

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available in 16 or 32 GB capacities that

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places frequently used data like operating system files and save games

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onto the cache automatically which in some situations is faster than running

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things off of an SSD even if your main

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disc that it's accelerating is a mechanical hard drive there is a catch

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though you'll need a supported platform namely a kbl lake or newer CPU and a 200

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series or newer Intel chipset as the company didn't want to do the validation

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and testing on anything older or for that matter anything AMD opting instead

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to tell consumers we know this hardware

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setup will work so use that the good

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news is that this obtained Cash Drive looks like it's going to be supported by

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nearly all major motherboard manufacturers as well as the big boy

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oems like Dell HP and Lenovo and there's

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more good news assuming you've got the

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uh dollar dollar bills there will be a

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full fat obtained storage solution that will

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function as a normal drive over a PCI

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Express slot or a u.2 port without

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needing a specific motherboard though uh

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high-capacity optain drives in an m.2 form factor probably won't be available

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anytime soon due to power and thermal

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concerns so then that's today but opan

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is so fast that it currently s saturates

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a PCI Express 3.0 X4 connection which

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has a theoretical max speed of a little under 4 GB per second so at some point

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we should expect to see new interconnects and protocols that can

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