by now it's become more or less mainstream to have a solid state drive
or SSD in your computer or even your phone and why not with their Fast
Response times and more recently falling
costs they're often recommended as the best single upgrade the average user can
make to an older machine but most ssds
are based on a storage technology called nand flash which has actually been
around for decades now and as we demand
faster speeds and storage solutions that can handle tons of requests at once
which is especially important for all those cloud-based services that we love
this aging technology will become more
and more of a bottleneck enter Intel opan a new
fundamentally different storage Tech based on what Intel is calling 3 Cross
Point although they're treating exactly
what sorts of materials they're using in 3D Cross Point and how they're arranged
as uh top secret what I can tell you is
that optain has a few major advantages
first up is latency the delay between an
IO request and the drive acting on it
although obtains latency isn't as low as the cash on your CPU or as low as your
system RAM it is much lower than any of
these existing storage Technologies and
yet obtains data density is much higher
than RAM meaning that it can be deployed
as either RAM likee working memory or
even as longer term storage due to its
combination of quick access times and
high capacities on the subject of using optained for
storage to be clear it won't be replacing the mechanical hard drive
anytime soon but unlike RAM its
nonvolatility means that it can retain
data for a relatively long time without
a constant supply of power and it's faster than even the fastest nand ssds
across the board including in the small
random reads and writs at low Q depths that account for the bulk of the average
person's usage not just in cherry-picked
benchmarks that don't reflect the real world in fact optane can hit close to
100,000 iops at a q depth of one and
over quadruple that at around Q depth 8
not Q depths of 32 which many SSD makers
advertise but which virtually never occur in real life optain also provides
much better quality of service meaning that random dips in performance are far
less common and it can handle many more transactions per second so performance
doesn't degrade nearly as much even when the drive is getting slammed with IO
requests this could end up being very important on the server and Cloud side
of things meaning like uh video messages
or controller inputs in Cloud games
could go in and out more quickly and reliably if these Enterprises started
using opan and it looks like the technology should catch on due to its
lower cost per transaction op's ability to be used as
high-capacity RAM could also make it a compelling solution for things like
machine learning think about developing software for self-driving cars for
example and scientific research where having having a large pool of working
memory is more important than having it be as fast as
possible but line is come on I'm not a
scientist researching artificial intelligence I just want to know how I
can get this stuff in my home battle station well right now the only optained
product available on the consumer level is an m.2 optained cache solution
available in 16 or 32 GB capacities that
places frequently used data like operating system files and save games
onto the cache automatically which in some situations is faster than running
things off of an SSD even if your main
disc that it's accelerating is a mechanical hard drive there is a catch
though you'll need a supported platform namely a kbl lake or newer CPU and a 200
series or newer Intel chipset as the company didn't want to do the validation
and testing on anything older or for that matter anything AMD opting instead
to tell consumers we know this hardware
setup will work so use that the good
news is that this obtained Cash Drive looks like it's going to be supported by
nearly all major motherboard manufacturers as well as the big boy
oems like Dell HP and Lenovo and there's
more good news assuming you've got the
uh dollar dollar bills there will be a
full fat obtained storage solution that will
function as a normal drive over a PCI
Express slot or a u.2 port without
needing a specific motherboard though uh
high-capacity optain drives in an m.2 form factor probably won't be available
anytime soon due to power and thermal
concerns so then that's today but opan
is so fast that it currently s saturates
a PCI Express 3.0 X4 connection which
has a theoretical max speed of a little under 4 GB per second so at some point
we should expect to see new interconnects and protocols that can
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