Thread: incredible surprise news from intel/micron right now...
Entering production, availability 2016 1000x faster than nand flash/ssd , eg dram-latency 10x denser than dram 1000x write endurance of nand Priced between flash and dram Manufactured by intel/micron Non-volatile Guess what's going in my 2016 db servers :-) Please, don't be vapourware... http://hothardware.com/news/intel-and-micron-jointly-drop-disruptive-game-changing-3d-xpoint-cross-point-memory-1000x-faster-than-nand
On 28 Jul 2015, at 22:29, Graeme B. Bell <graeme.bell@nibio.no> wrote: > Entering production, availability 2016 > 1000x faster than nand flash/ssd , eg dram-latency > 10x denser than dram > 1000x write endurance of nand > Priced between flash and dram > Manufactured by intel/micron > Non-volatile http://www.anandtech.com/show/9541/intel-announces-optane-storage-brand-for-3d-xpoint-products Some new information (for anyone putting thought into 2016 DB hardware purchases). Throughput seems to be good. >7x better IOPS than one of the best enterprise PCIe SSDs on the market, with queue depth 1, >5x better as queue depth gets higher. Graeme.