Comment by Gud

2 days ago

1+ for 3dxpoint.

The technology took decades to mature, but the business people didn’t have the patience to let the world catch up to this revolutionary technology.

The world had already caught up. By the time it was released, flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency, to the point that the difference want with the cost.

  • >flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency

    Kinda, but for small writes it's still nowhere near.

    Samsung 990 Pro - IOPS 4KQD1 113 MBytes/Sec

    P4800X optane - IOPS 4KQD1 206 MBytes/Sec

    And that's a device 5 years newer and on a faster pcie generation.

    It disappeared because the market that values above attribute is too small and its hard to market because at first glance they look about the same on a lot of metrics as you say