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> Optane kit is as big and as cheap as disk drive

Wait what? It's always been at a significant premium per GB over both enterprise HDDs and high-speed SSDs.

The cheapest DIMM module is 128GB for > $450 a pop.

Even in the enterprise range you'll get 1TB of fast and durable SSD with PLP for that, and that's when I restrict myself to things that are in stock right now. Even if you would get the Optanes at 75% off, that'd still almost be twice the price.

There's never been a point in the past when they've been significantly cheaper, either.



Yes, OK, I will own up to that. It was poorly phrased.

"Cheaper than RAM, but in the size range of SSDs, with performance in between the two," would have been a better way to express it.




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