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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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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AFAIK pagefiles are as fast as the HDD but I don't know exactly how it all works, maybe it is slower
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