Reports are in that Intel's new 3-D XPoint based Optane SSDs are ready for shipping. For techies watching out for memory breakthroughs, this is seen as significant.
One would have a difficult time finding any article about something called the Optane SSD DC P4800X, the new storage drive (a 375GB PCIe based SSD) that did not use superlatives.
Ali Raza, TechJuice, said Friday that Intel launched the fastest SSD storage.
Raza said, "It reads and writes information on the storage faster than the NAND technology employed in current SSDs." Other writers called it insanely fast.
TechSpot called the 3-D XPoint SSD the "new king of enterprise SSDs."
Paul Alcorn, contributing editor, Tom's Hardware: "Optane is Intel's all-encompassing brand name for the collection of technologies, including 3-D XPoint media, memory, storage controller, interconnects, and drivers, that power the DC P4800X."
Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, said Optane drives "are nonvolatile, like flash memory, which means that they should use relatively little standby power and that they're fast, like DRAM."
Intel's Enterprise 3-D XPoint technology plays its part in this news. The 3-D XPoint technology which Intel is using here was developed in partnership with Micron technology, said Digit.
Bourzac called 3-D XPoint the "mystery technology inside Optane."
