Intel has launched its new series of Optane 800p units. That offers more excellent capabilities than the first generation of this technology. That was limited to a maximum of 32 GB. The low capacity was one of the leading disadvantages of the first generation Optane memory. And now that has finally been solved with this new release.
Intel Optane 800P offers high speed and low latency cache with a capacity of up to 118 GB
Intel launches its new 58GB and 118GB Optane 800p discs
In addition, the Intel Optane 800P works as a cache device in systems with Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake processors. Also, this technology allows retaining essential data from an HDD or SSD to accelerate the most used applications. Optane comes as a non-volatile 3DXpoint memory. So data is not erased when the power is cut off. The high performance of Optane at low latencies makes this technology ideal for this use.
Optane 800P will come in capacities of 58GB and 118GB with a price of $ 129 for the first and $ 199 for the second. So, that results in a cost per GB much higher than the SSD based on NAND memory. And this is the main inconvenience of Optane and will make its adoption quite slow.
Intel defines the read and writes speeds of these units as 1450 MB/s and 640 MB/s in sequential operations with a 4K randomized performance level of 250K IOPS in reading and 140K IOPS in write. These are figures that do not seem like much. But the significant advantage of Optane is much lower latency. So that you can access high levels of performance much sooner than NAND memory-based disks.
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