Intel introduced its first product Optane 3D XPoint, the Intel SSD DC P4800X, which the company claims can run database operations up to 10 times faster.
The first Optane (Intel SSD DC P4800X) will be available today at 375GB, and in the second half of 2017 will be released on 750GB, 1.5TB as well as U.2.
In addition to the SSD's speed, which the company says is 8 to 40 times faster compared to the P3700 SSD DC, Intel says it can also be used to expand μνήμηs.
In combination with Memory A drive found in Xeon chips, an Optane SSD is able to be used as a memory pool along with DRAM without having to configure your operating system or use any application.
The company even reports that, in the workload, it believes as long as the 90% of DRAM can be replaced by the Optane SSD.
In one example, the company used a dual-Xeon server with 678GB RAM that handled a 675GB MySQL database. The company changed the RAM to 128GB and added two 4800GB Intel SSD DC P375X discs. Immediately after that, a decrease of 20 percent in the performance of the database was observed.
With Optane's larger capacity, an Xeon dual-socket system could have 24 TB memory, and a quad-socket system will reach 48TB.
Intel announced that Optane 3D will be particularly useful for analytics, machine learning, and fundamentals data.
