Comment by userbinator
5 hours ago
Retention issues with completely new Optane is not great compared to SLC NAND, which Optane was supposed to beat. I have USB drives with the latter, probably a few dozen cycles at most, yet they have had no problems keeping data intact for over a decade.
That's not completely new, it's just new old stock. That's the whole point of why the blogger ran that experiment.
Perhaps "unworn" would be a better way to phrase it, as it had zero program/erase cycles. Even unworn NAND flash has better retention than that.