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expired Posted by sr71 • Feb 22, 2023
expired Posted by sr71 • Feb 22, 2023

118GB Intel Optane SSD P1600X Enterprise NVMe SSD at Newegg $61

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Feb 22, 2023
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maorsela
Feb 22, 2023
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Sure, why not, thanks OP!
Feb 22, 2023
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qieytqehajd
Feb 22, 2023
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Any value using this in an unraid server for plex transcoding?
Feb 22, 2023
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CyanScene764
Feb 22, 2023
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Quote from qieytqehajd :
Any value using this in an unraid server for plex transcoding?
The Optane drives are extremely niche products for low-latency read-write operations of many small files. They work well as drive caches and traditional databases. Also, you can absolutely beat the brakes off of them with endless read-write operations.

TBH, if you have to ask whether an Optane is right for your use case, it almost certainly isn't.
Feb 22, 2023
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OrangePear1583
Feb 22, 2023
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Quote from CyanScene764 :
The Optane drives are extremely niche products for low-latency read-write operations of many small files. They work well as drive caches and traditional databases. Also, you can absolutely beat the brakes off of them with endless read-write operations.

TBH, if you have to ask whether an Optane is right for your use case, it almost certainly isn't.
They also don't have NAND wear - I used my 280 gig 900P as an OS / main game drive for 4 years straight and it was still at 100% life. The downside is that they are pretty low in their storage space, so something like this is probably better as a cache device (Primocache for windows?).

I snagged two for my Qnap NAS - it's got a dual M.2 / 10 gig ethernet card that I use for Qtier that massively improves write performance. We're talking sustained 2gbps+ writes on a 2.5gbps connection to my main rig (that's with a standard m.2 drive, not Optane - and they're both at 70% life after ~2 years). With Qtier off, I see 40mbps to 900mbps writes, and reads aren't that much better without Qtier.
Last edited by OrangePear1583 February 22, 2023 at 01:37 PM.
Feb 22, 2023
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Timless
Feb 22, 2023
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Quote from qieytqehajd :
Any value using this in an unraid server for plex transcoding?
for general consumers these drives are basically only useful as a SLOG drive for ZFS.
Feb 22, 2023
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CyanScene764
Feb 22, 2023
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Quote from OrangePear1583 :
They also don't have NAND wear - I used my 280 gig 900P as an OS / main game drive for 4 years straight and it was still at 100% life. The downside is that they are pretty low in their storage space, so something like this is probably better as a cache device (Primocache for windows?).

I snagged two for my Qnap NAS - it's got a dual M.2 / 10 gig ethernet card that I use for Qtier that massively improves write performance. We're talking sustained 2gbps+ writes on a 2.5gbps connection to my main rig (that's with a standard m.2 drive, not Optane - and they're both at 70% life after ~2 years). With Qtier off, I see 40mbps to 900mbps writes, and reads aren't that much better without Qtier.
My use case is a database I use for stock market analysis. Lots of tiny reads and writes. The whole DB gets a drive all to itself, which is more than enough overhead for my purposes.

For most consumer use cases, it's hard to see a 118 GB drive doing the job. Most Optanes that are big enough for consumer purposes are also very expensive on a per-TB basis.

When in doubt, I tell people with 4th-gen capability on their boards to get the sk Hynix p41. 3rd-gen folks will usually be fine with the 970 or up from Samsung.
Feb 23, 2023
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Pyrocumulous
Feb 23, 2023
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Quote from Timless :
for general consumers these drives are basically only useful as a SLOG drive for ZFS.
general consumers with ZFS? 🤨

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Feb 23, 2023
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FierceDeityLink
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Quote from qieytqehajd :
Any value using this in an unraid server for plex transcoding?
I just transcode to RAM but I guess it depends on how many concurrent transcodes you want to support.

Also I heard that these work well as L2 cache drives with PrimoCache but I haven't tried it.
Feb 23, 2023
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joecool1029
Feb 23, 2023
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dead, logged in to buy and the price shot up -_-
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Quote from joecool1029 :
dead, logged in to buy and the price shot up -_-
Cheaper now at $59.99.

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