Storage is starting to get extremely exciting again. The KV SSD's, this, and Intel's Optane are opening up a lot of new avenues for extremely high performance storage.
I have a 1,000,000,000 byte file on my Optane SSD, and it loads into RAM in about 4 seconds, with zero tweaking, under Windows. The thing is wicked fast, even on a consumer laptop.
Intel didn't sell the best of their SSD tech, just the lower end stuff.
Curious, but 1 GB in four seconds sounds kind of slow?
Isn't that slower than a lot of SSDs? Mine can do that in around 2 and a half seconds and it's not Optane, just a normal NVMe SSD.
That's 250MB/s.... A sata3 SSD can do 500MB/s sequential reads. If you were talking about a 10GB file, which would be the limit of NVMe pcie3 drives for that transfer period.
Didn't Intel just sell off it's SSD division to SK Hynix?