The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280G Review
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1. Write Endurance is amazing, you can keep writing 2.8Tbytes per day every day for 5 years, as a comparison, Intel 750 only allow you to write 70GBytes per day. Such high write endurance does raise an interesting question - why still bother paying for those expensive enterprise NAND SSD.
2. Random IO performance is identical to P4800x, what Intel actually took away from P4800x or is 900P just a slightly different product with a slightly revised spec list. ;)
For me, this is the most exciting hardware release in 2017, the price point is just amazing, it is going significantly boost the performance I am going to get from my distributed consensus library which requires fsync for each write.
The one standout feature apparently is that performance is reliable and not subject to GC stalls or degradation as the drive fills up.
This drive looks like it would be amazing for database workloads, for example.
The price isn't too bad really; a Samsung 960 PRO M.2 1TB is $600 for a little more than twice the storage. It's still early days for 3d xpoint; Intel and Micron will build on this. Exciting stuff.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/now-avail...
Anyway, the point is you do not need to spend anywhere near $32,500/m to get that kind of performance from AWS. (As long as you don't mind using non-EBS storage.) In this case, an i3.16xlarge is $27,856 per YEAR (if paid upfront).
This device is supposed to be on the order of 10 microsecond.
The only people that would notice that are people running database servers serving hundreds of thousands of users.
If Intel can hit a production cost per GB close to standard NAND it seems like they would be able to absolutely dominate the premium consumer/enterprise SSD market.
Average consumers don't need this. Enthusiast gamers don't need this. This is enterprise hardware rebranded for consumers.
* High Read And Write Performance At Small Capacity Points
* High Performance Maintained As The Drive Fills
* Heavy Workloads That Cause Drive Wear And Require High Endurance
Because SSD fail all three:
They require huge blocks to be wiped if you want to write anything, they grind to halt once you fill past 50%, and they eventually degrade.
From what I've seen in charts, they deliver.
This is "Intel" we're talking about. I'm no expert on the industry, but from what I recall Intel is the king of fabs.
;D
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-stor...
Do you seriously believe that Intel 900p is not going to be better than Optane memory in that regard?
Now... to be fair consumers applications in the modern cloudworld are generally not storage-limited. So maybe your point is defensible in a specious sense. But as actual performance measurements go, these really are ripping fast drives.
Are we reading the same article?
I use Spitfire stuff, mainly Albion, but the voice requirements these guys have is on another level. The Optane speedup would certainly mean more voices, and perhaps remove the need to have separate SSD's for each large kontakt library?