Several factors converged to ultimately kill Optane. First, the market simply didn't embrace it the way Intel hoped. Consumer ...

If you wanted the space of a hard drive, but the speed of an SSD, there weren't many options. Intel aimed to change that with ...

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Optane has long occupied a kind of no man's land in personal computing, but Intel aims to change that with its latest drive. Known as 3D XPoint before the "Optane" rebrand, the technology exists as a ...

Last week, Intel announced its new Optane drives meant for server and HPC configurations. Today, the company is announcing its PC client version. The new drives will ship in 16GB and 32GB capacities.

StorONE is revitalizing the all-flash array with its new All-Flash Array.next (AFAn) product that combines Intel Optane solid-state drives (SSDs) and Intel quad level cell (QLC) 3D NAND Storage Tiers.

But what exactly is Optane, and what is it good for? (Analytics and AI, to name two major use cases.) If you’re not feeling up to speed, don’t worry. We’ll have you covered on all the basics in the ...

Intel will begin shipping its next-generation non-volatile Optane memory for PCs beginning April 24. Intel, which developed the Optane memory with its partner Micron under the name “3D Xpoint,” said ...

I haven't built a new machine since Spring of 2017, and it's about that time again. As always, storage is the bottleneck for snappiness, so I'm looking for the fastest SSD for desktop use, cost no ...

The pcie 4 Optane version has twice the random IOPS as the newest flash drives, but half the transfer rate, and the pcie 3 optane drives are about a fifth the transfer rate. Once you get to block ...