Comment by walterbell
6 hours ago
Related: "High-bandwidth flash progress and future" (15 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700384
In an era of RAM shortages and quarterly price increases, Optane remains viable for swap and CPU/GPU cache.
I’ve been considering buying 8x64g models and setting them as equal priority swap disks (to mitigate the low throughput) for this exact reason.
Can confirm doing so is awesome. Get some slightly bigger ones and partition them for additional use as zil. They're extremely satisfying to use, and depressing to remember that we'll never see their like again.
Yeah, I've wondered if we might see a revival of this kind of technology.
in an era of shortages, if there was an optane factory today ready to print money...
Secondary market surplus pricing (~$1/GB) value accrues to the buyer..
> (~$1/GB)
Isn't that actually crazy good, even insane value for the performance and DWPD you get with Optane, especially with DRAM being ~$15/GB or so? I don't think ~$1/GB NAND is anywhere that good on durability, even if the raw performance is quite possibly higher.