Intel introduced its first Optane 3D XPoint product, the Intel SSD DC P4800X, which the company says can run the processes of a baseof data 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 for extension of memory.
Combined with the Memory Drive found on Xeon chips, an Optane SSD can be used as a memory pool alongside DRAM without having to configure the functional your 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 με 678GB RAM που διαχειριζόταν μια βάση δεδομένων MySQL των 675GB. Η εταιρεία άλλαξε τη RAM στα 128GB και πρόσθεσε two 4800GB Intel SSD DC P375X. Immediately afterwards a 20 percent drop in database performance 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 has announced that Optane 3D will be particularly useful for analytics, mechanical learning, and databases.
