Intel's new Optane technology is impressive. Likely to replace flash SSDs over time with something much faster more durable. Currently expensive though.
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Yeah optane might just make RAM obsolete except for high end gaming rigs or productivity stations
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That will be very interesting! But it will be awfully hard to compete with the speed and cost of DRAM. Best to tackle the long-term storage layer first
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Although perhaps we would see DRAM basically shrink to a (say) 2GB cache for the main Optane storage given the relatively high cost of DRAM
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you beat me to it
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I suppose the real problem with this model is dealing with it conceptually & in software. We're just so used to having our storage and our working memory separate, but this becomes a unified model
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true, I bet it'd just be mostly a fenced off portion to be addressed as short term mem, not much change in software interfacing otherwise
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I guess the first thing if it really is close to DRAM speed is a switch from eg 8 GB DRAM + 500 GB SSD with a small page file on the SSD to 2 GB DRAM + 500 GB Optane with a large page file on the Optane. Which would perform better and be cheaper?
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(how efficient is paging in Windows, anyway? And how much more expensive will optane be than flash, and how much cheaper will it be than dram?)
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