| ▲ | zozbot234 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That may have been the ideal usage back in the day, but ideal usage now is just for setting up swap. Write-heavy workloads are king with Optane, and threshing to swap is the prototypical example of something that's so write-heavy it's a terrible fit for NAND. Optane might not have been "as fast as DRAM" but it was plenty close enough to be fit for purpose. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mort96 2 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That would be fine if I could put it in an M.2 slot. But all my computers already have RAM in their RAM slots, and even if I had a spare RAM slot, I don't know that I'd trust the software stack to treat one RAM slot as a drive... And their whole deal was making RAM persistent anyway, which isn't exactly what I want. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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