August 1, 20178 yr Anyone got a system with an optane memory module and HDD combination as their boot drive? Does it work well? [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
August 6, 20178 yr lol I thought the title said Opiates anyone? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
August 6, 20178 yr Author It might have well have said that given all the response I've had! I can only assume optane is a total miss with the sim crowd. No worries. I've got a new pc en route with a 32gb optane module, so I'm going to see first hand if it's worth a damn. [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
August 7, 20178 yr Interesting! Based on this article https://www.howtogeek.com/317294/what-is-intel-optane-memory/ you will get noticeable improvement only if you are using mechanical hard drive, the improvement when used with an SSD is very small, also it will only work with the primary partition, therefore if you have an SSD and HDD, it will work only with the SSD (assuming it's the primary one). I think it's a good solution when you have an existing system with huge HDD and without an SSD, as the optane memory costs around $50 on Amazon, where with an SSD, it will cost around $120 for 250GB, and you will have to format your system and install everything from scratch.
August 7, 20178 yr Seems to be quite a drawback if it only works with the boot drive. That means unless you have a conventional HDD as your boot drive (with a large primary partition), the Optane module is pretty much redundant. As it only works with the latest generation of motherboards, it couldn't even be used to speed up an old system. I would think that anyone who buys or builds a new computer would almost certainly want an SSD as their boot drive so Optane seems much less attractive. As far as only using the primary partition/volume on the boot drive, it's a little unclear. This is from the Intel Optane FAQs: Q - Can I enable system acceleration on my SATA drive that contains more than 1 volume (for example, a boot volume and a data volume)? A - System acceleration of a SATA drive that contains one boot partition/volume and a data partition/volume is supported. Although it says it "supports" a primary drive with more than one partition, it doesn't make clear whether or not all partitions are accelerated. i7-14700k | Asus ROG STRIX Z790-F Gaming WIFI | 32GB DDR5 RAM | MSI RTX 4080 Super | WD Black SN850X 1TB & 2TB | Corsair HX1000i ATX3.0 | MSI MAG401QR 40" monitor | Win 11 Pro 64-bit | Meta Quest 3
August 7, 20178 yr Author Primary partition only AFAIK. The list of restrictions and limitations seems long. Unless Intel can relax some of these, I suspect this technology is going the way of the dodo. [email protected] - ROG Strix Z790-E - 2X16Gb G.Skill Trident DDR5 6400 CL32 - MSI RTX 4090 Suprim X - WD SN850X 2 TB M.2 - XPG S70 Blade 2 TB M.2 - MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold PSU - Liam Li 011 Dynamic Razer case - 58" Panasonic TC-58AX800U 4K - Pico 4 VR HMD - WinWing HOTAS Orion2 MAX - ProFlight Pedals - TrackIR 5 - W11 Pro (Passmark:12574, CPU:63110-Single:4785, GPU:50688)
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