But what exactly is Optane, and what is it good for? (Analytics and AI, to name two major use cases.) If you’re not feeling up to speed, don’t worry. We’ll have you covered on all the basics in the ...

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For years, Intel Optane seemed destined to reshape how we store data in computers. It promised to bridge the gap between blazing-fast RAM and practical storage, with latency and consistency that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Solid-state drives offer much faster read and write speeds over their traditional hard drive counterparts. However, they're often limited in ...

At CES this year, Intel announced its Optane H10 Memory Solution -- a novel idea for combining Optane and new, quad-level cell NAND on the same M.2 card. It's an adaptation of the same caching idea we ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...

Intel’s large-capacity Optane is like the Ferrari of storage: It’s super fast, it’s cool and it’s expensive. Also, it isn’t for everyone yet. That was reiterated by Intel when it introduced its first ...