Tom's Hardware: Intel Debuts 'World's Fastest SSD, ' the PCIe 4.0 Optane SSD P5800X

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> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-debuts-worlds-fastest-ssd-the-pcie-40-optane-ssd-p5800x
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> random read/write workloads,
> peaking at 1.5 million 4K random IOPS
> sequential performance peak of 7.2 GB/s.
> 4.6 million IOPS in random 512B workloads
> up to 1.8 million IOPS in mixed workloads

> My 1982 SemiDisk (a
> whopping 512 kilobytes in storage:  That's 0.000000512 Terabytes for you
> slacker millennials) was lucky to do 1 megabytes/second in transfer
> rate.  http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/SemiDisk/SemiDisk.htm

Being RAM, your iops could have been close to
the speed of the bus at that time, same with xfer.
What was 1982... 1MHz or so...


Who is selling large capacity consumer RAM drives these days?
Consumer means a cheap dumb block device, no raid, no mangement,
no size limits, ecc ram, solid 12v external battery connector, at least
2x the ram slot count of the biggest 1-cpu consumer motherboards
(those are usually 8 slots), full height and length options, no bus
bottleneck up to pcie 4.0 16x, quality build, short warranty.

You could probably find a very good market for it,
and quadruple profit by adding on a corporate firmware load
with management, -48v adapter, long warranty, support, etc.

Even better if you can solder on the ram (much more dense
than sticks, more choice of ram types), at less cost than what
consumers could buy standard modules at.

Call them the JDB drives...

JDB - huge iops, huge xfer, more space than SSD, $$.

RAM - huge iops, huge xfer, small space, $$$.
SSD - middle iops, more xfer, low space, $$.
HDD - small iops, less xfer, huge space, $.

Break the rules...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z526m1jvls zfs usb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuSloByL6U zfs usb

Fill the product gaps...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_B8AFvguqo