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.
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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.