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Intel Optane SSD 58GB for $100
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    Use coupon EMCSPURX2

    Very good as editing drive, much faster in real work compared to any SSD.

    You can use it on Ryzen also - https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/19701/fuzedrive-ryzen-friendly-soft-for-dram-ssd-or-optane-cache-#Item_4

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-167-452

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  • tonalttonalt

    Too small.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @tonalt

    Clearly not large. But it is more than hour of 100Mbit video if you use it alone.

    If you are making weddings or long interviews - use it as cache for your editing drive.

  • tonalttonalt

    For almost same price you get over 4 times bigger, and much faster and newer drive https://www.amazon.de/Samsung-MZ-V7E250BW-970-EVO-Interne/dp/B07CGGNX7S/

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @tonalt

    It is one problem, it is slower (in any real task besides copy of big file).

    Before writing, dig up about Optane drives and how they differ.

  • tonalttonalt

    Samsung is 3300 / 2500 and Intel is only 1450 / 640.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @tonalt

    It is never bad to read post before reply.

  • FirworksFirworks

    Tonalt it's only 3300/2500 for the SLC cache size (which is only 13GB on that 250GB EVO drive you linked). That high speed cache then writes to the much slower TLC cells in the drive at a pretty abysmal rate. So if you write a 4GB file to the drive it'll be very quick. If you try to write a 50GB file to it it'll transfer quick for a while and then drop all the way down below ~300MB/s for the remainder of the transfer.

    The 970 Pro drive is all MLC which will sustain it's high read and write speeds for the entire capacity of the drive.

  • eatstoomuchjameatstoomuchjam

    I've been meaning to play with these as slog devices on my NAS. It's using ZFS on FreeBSD. The write endurance of 3d xpoint is potentially desirable for that sort of thing (and they estimate the lifespan to be 5 years of writes of 200gb/day which is way more than I tend to write). 3d xpoint also has the advantage of writing/erasing pretty fast compared with mlc - another thing that tends to be great on an slog device.

    A sale seems like a great time to give it a shot - and I think I have two open m.2 slots on my NAS motherboard...

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    In real tasks performance is much more defined by 4K QD1, for editors it is mix of 4K QD1-QD4 and sequential read, but due to architecture of NLEs sequential read is not much important for anything besides 6-8K raw.

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  • eatstoomuchjameatstoomuchjam

    Mine showed up so I installed them in my nas. It wasn't until I tried running a benchmark copying files to the nas that I remembered that zil devices only come into play on sync writes. Since most things (like copying files from my desktop) are written async OK, the log device isn't getting used at all. Ergh.

    I guess I have a couple of pretty fast boot devices for bare metal linux systems now, though. :-/

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