#optane

The SSD model I have for my boot drive is the lowest-latency M.2 drive on the planet (and will be for the foreseeable future, because the technology it uses stopped being developed).

Intel Optane SSD DC P5800X 800GB SSD Review

Intel’s Optane memory products, developed in conjunction with Micron, are an interesting product to explain. Early models were low-capacity devices meant to act as a cache or buffer against a larger, slower device but drives with enough raw capacity to be useful on their own quickly followed. While consumers had a hard time looking past a higher cost per capacity unrealistic marketing numbers…

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: Managing QLC to Make it Enterprise Class

At StorONE we recently launched the All-Flash Array.next. While our use of Optane gets all the headlines, how we manage QLC is a real technical achievement that can benefit data centers of all sizes.

QLC offers enterprises excellent read performance, good write performance, but low endurance. Low endurance can be deceiving, though. The way a storage solution writes data to the QLC SSDs can…