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Tom's Hardware: Intel Optane 3D XPoint Memory Review

The Optane drive cache is more promising than I thought but I still think that it will be kind of a niche product. Still Optane+HD it is very close on a lot of mainstream benchmarks to a midrange SSD. Hard drives aren't quite dead yet...

"With limited testing capacity, we felt it was better to produce an article that focused on mainstream users first. We will follow up later with an article focused on enthusiast users with aggressive settings, optimizations, and unofficial support testing.
As tested today with mainstream settings, Optane Memory performed as advertised. We observed increased performance with both a hard disk drive and an entry-level NVMe SSD. The value proposition for a hard drive paired with Optane Memory is undeniable. The combination is very powerful, and for many users, a better solution than a larger SSD."


http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-optane-3d-xpoint-memory,5032-5.html