That's data retention issues on the very first read-through of the media after sitting in cold storage for many years, with subsequent performance returning to normal. It's definitely something to be aware of (and kudos to the blog poster for running that experiment) but worn-out NAND will behave a lot worse than that.
myself248 4 hours ago||
My kingdom for a MicroSD card with Optane inside. My dashcam wants it soooo badly.
pgwalsh 5 hours ago||
Sure, they were expensive but they have great endurance and sustained read and write speeds. I use one in my car for camera recordings. I had gone through several other drives but this one has been going on 3 or 4 years now without issue. I have a couple more in use too. It's a shame this tech is going away because it's excellent.
gozzoo 5 hours ago||
Maybe we can also mention the HP Memristor here.
jamiek88 4 hours ago|
Oh I was so excited for that. I devoured any news or blogs or rumours about that immediately!
gigatexal 5 hours ago||
I’m still sad they discontinued them. What’s the alternative now does anything come close?
walterbell 4 hours ago|
Small sizes are on secondary market for ~$1/GB.
zozbot234 3 hours ago||
Which is a bargain compared to what DRAM costs today. If you just include the bare minimum of DRAM for a successful boot and immediately set up the entire "small" Optane drive as swap, that's a viable workstation-class system for comparative peanuts. You can't do this with NAND because the write workload of swap kills the media (I suppose it becomes viable if you monitor SMART wearout indicators and heavily overprovision the storage to leverage the drive's pSLC mode, but you're still treating $~0.10/GB hardware as a consumable and that will cost you) and of course you can't do it with spinning rust because the media is too slow.
FpUser 5 hours ago||
I feel sorry about the situation. From my perspective Optane was a godsend for databases. I was contemplating building a system. Could've been a pinnacle of vertical scalability for cheap.
ece 5 hours ago||
Fabs are expensive and all, but maybe running a right-sized fab could have still been profitable at making optane for low-latency work that it was so good at. Even moreso with RAM prices as they are.
downrightmike 1 hour ago|
PE popped already, now Private credit is already popping, having been in too many bubbles, Datacenter bubble popped them. The whole system just isn't talking about it because the media isn't doing their job to report. There are no more good loans to make, the ROI is nil and the interest rate is spot plus 5.5%, and businesses don't want to pay 10% interest on a loan. We're ina zombie cycle