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by merb 3343 days ago
well there are 1tb memory machines not sure if a 32 gb ssd cache would help.
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shadowfacts 3343 days ago
The 32GB one from this article is the consumer product with the same Optane technology as the enterprise/datacenter one. The DC-P4800X (the datacenter one) has 375GB, 750GB, and 1.5TB variants[1].

So, no, if you have 1TB of memory a 32GB Optane SSD isn't going to make a difference, but if you have 1TB of memory, you're not the target for the 32GB consumer version, you're the target for the 375GB+ datacenter version.

[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11209/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p480...

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Dylan16807 3343 days ago
> you're the target for the 375GB+ datacenter version

Keeping in mind that that version costs $4/GB, which is about half the price of adding more RAM. Which means that while it can be good storage for ZFS or a database, it's still not a particularly effective cache in such a machine.

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merb 3343 days ago
well at 1tb memory there aren't that many dimm slots free and some processors also don't support that much more.

but still what I wanted to say is that it is prolly more useful as a ssd read cache. and not to have it behind your big memory.

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pixl97 3343 days ago
It costs $4 per GB today. In 6 months it will probably be $3, and in a few years it will be $2. Meanwhile RAM will still be $8 per GB or more. Also 64GB dimms are around $13 per GB, and have been around that price for awhile.
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