On 28 Jul 2015, at 22:29, Graeme B. Bell <graeme.bell@nibio.no> wrote:
> Entering production, availability 2016
> 1000x faster than nand flash/ssd , eg dram-latency
> 10x denser than dram
> 1000x write endurance of nand
> Priced between flash and dram
> Manufactured by intel/micron
> Non-volatile
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9541/intel-announces-optane-storage-brand-for-3d-xpoint-products
Some new information (for anyone putting thought into 2016 DB hardware purchases).
Throughput seems to be good.
>7x better IOPS than one of the best enterprise PCIe SSDs on the market, with queue depth 1,
>5x better as queue depth gets higher.
Graeme.