Intel introduced its first Optane 3D XPoint product, the Intel SSD DC P4800X, which according to company can perform the operations 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 speed that the company reported to respond faster than 8 to 40 times compared to P3700 SSD DC, Intel says it can also be used to expand memory.
Combined with the Memory Drive on the Xeon chip, an Optane SSD disk can be used as a memory pool along with DRAM without having to set up 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 of RAM that managed a 675GB MySQL database. The company changed the RAM to 128GB and added two diskIntel SSD DC P4800X of 375GB. 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 announced that Optane 3D will be particularly useful for analytics, machine learning, and fundamentals data.
