In
a curiously low-key Sunday announcement, Intel formally launched the
first product based on its highly touted '3D Xpoint' memory technology.
First announced in mid-2015, 3D Xpoint is a joint effort between Intel and Micron.
It was claimed to be a whole new class of solid-state storage, offering
blazing fast speeds and far superior reliability to the flash memory
used in mainstream SSDs.
The new Optane SSD DC 4800X is a 375GB
SSD in a PCIe card form factor. It will be available in limited
quantities, priced at $1,520 (approximately Rs. 99,384). Higher capacity
models as well as U.2 form factor variants will follow later this year.
The Optane SSD DC 4800X is targeted at workloads which benefit from
extremely low latency and high responsiveness under load.
Intel
says the drive can achieve speeds of 2GBps even at low queue depths,
whereas flash-based SSDs only work their best with a queue depth of 32
or more. Moreover, a high volume of random writes and reads
simultaneously without compromising each other, with latency remaining
low even under extreme load. Endurance is rated at 30 drive-writes per
day, or 12.3 total Petabytes written.
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