Interesting how the NAND memory writes total and Xpoint are so close, you'd think these things had been designed to eventually fail with NAND amazingly upping it's game and Xpoint nowhere near the initial super duper number of writes as first mooted. Over to you fellow cynics.
Samsung preps for Z-SSD smackdown on Intel Optane drives
Samsung is launching its ambitious supercharged NAND Z-SSD in competition with Intel's P4800X Optane drive. Specs for the SZ985 Z-NAND drive were revealed in November, displaying close-to-Optane performance, slightly lower latency, faster read/write bandwidth and random read but lower random write IOPS. Tech Capacity R/ …
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Tuesday 30th January 2018 14:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
I thought the current Xpoint speed is limited by the existing CPU interfaces? While it is useful (i.e. shows better performance than the competitors) for heavy workloads, the full performance of Xpoint will be unlocked with newer, lower latency interfaces to CPU's.
Note that this ignores any advances from Xpoint's competitors that may make it look less impressive...
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