Intel stopped making Optane, but its tiny 118GB drive is still the boot drive home lab enthusiasts hunt for
Intel pulled the plug on Optane in July 2022, wrote off more than half a billion dollars in inventory, and walked away from one of the more interesting storage technologies of the past decade. More than four years later, the P1600X, a 118GB M.2 drive Intel built to boot data center servers, keeps turning up in home lab communities and build threads. On paper, it doesn't make any sense: the drive is PCIe 3.0, smaller than most modern SSDs, and any current NVMe will beat it in sequential transfers. The reason why home labbers want it has nothing to do with normal SSD performance, though. It's a specialist, and whether it belongs in your home lab really depends on what you're running.
Intel pulled the plug on Optane in July 2022, wrote off more than half a billion dollars in inventory, and walked away from one of the more interesting storage technologies of the past decade. More than four years later, the P1600X, a 118GB M.2 drive Intel built to boot data center servers, keeps turning up in home lab communities and build threads. On paper, it doesn’t make any sense: the drive is PCIe 3.0, smaller than most modern SSDs, and any current NVMe will beat it in sequential transfers. The reason why home labbers want it has nothing to do with normal SSD performance, though. It’s a specialist, and whether it belongs in your home lab really depends on what you’re running.
Evelyn Smith
New Zealand
New Zealand
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