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  • austinsguitar - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    its kinda sad how bad optane is. i mean thats a huge premuim... with not much impovement to something like a 970 pro or 970 evo...
  • beginner99 - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    The improvement is performance at low queue depth, eg. QD=1 which is what your PC is running at like 99.99% of the time. SSDs in comparison suck at QD=1 and only reach a fraction of advertised speed/IOPS.
  • Santoval - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    "which is what your PC is running at like 99.99% of the time."
    Er, no it doesn't, and if you insist it does please support it with some link to evidence. Optane is impressive at QD=1, and a major part of everyday computing relies on QD=1, but it certainly is not anywhere close to 99.99% of it.
  • Amandtec - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link

    Probably not anyone's pc on this site - but for people who just use their browser and MS office 90% is probably not far off.
  • ballsystemlord - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link

    Where are my fellow power users when I need them...
  • philehidiot - Sunday, September 30, 2018 - link

    Of course, those who do run queue depths like this for menial browsing and MS Orifice tasks do not need Optane nor will they notice any benefit from it.
  • erinadreno - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    The performance of Optane is actually much better than traditional ssd under Windows. Especially when installing large programs, like CAD software.
  • surt - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    Is there really a big audience that cares about software install speed? I mean, isn't that something most people do once a month or less?
  • ballsystemlord - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link

    Not when you are using Gentoo Linux because it is FASTEEERRRR!*
    * No, Linux users can't afford it, so my comment does not make any sense.
  • haukionkannel - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    Yep. Optane beats ssd hands down but those power consumtion Numbers Are worrying. Waiting to see test results. Definitely gonna consider those as boot drives!
  • jerrytsao - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    its kinda sad how little knowledge some had about optane, yet still made a comment about something he never used
  • Alistair - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link

    Big problem for Intel is all SSD prices dropping in half over the last 6 months. Where's the half price Optane to compete? The competitive position is much worse now than 6 months ago.
  • SanX - Friday, September 28, 2018 - link

    Who cares about Optane. The real life difference between Optane and say Samsung 960 in 99.99% business applications and games will be within error bars. This is why Anandtech shows for SSD only synthetic benchmarks.

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