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walterbelltoday at 3:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

Related: "High-bandwidth flash progress and future" (15 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700384

In an era of RAM shortages and quarterly price increases, Optane remains viable for swap and CPU/GPU cache.


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Weryjtoday at 5:55 PM

I’ve been considering buying 8x64g models and setting them as equal priority swap disks (to mitigate the low throughput) for this exact reason.

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trollbridgetoday at 4:01 PM

Yeah, I've wondered if we might see a revival of this kind of technology.

newscluestoday at 4:04 PM

in an era of shortages, if there was an optane factory today ready to print money...

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