Optane ssd dc p4800x, intel releases ssd with breakneck speed

Much has been said about the new 3D XPoint memories that Intel was developing in its laboratories, memories that were capable of working at speeds between 8 and 40 times higher than those of a normal SSD. Now the American company announces its first unit with this type of super-fast SSD memory, we are talking about the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X.

Optane SSD DC P4800X, 8 to 40 times faster than a normal SSD

The new Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X memory drives will initially come with a capacity of 375 GB and you can connect to the computer using a PCI Express / NVMe connection, which is the only way to get the most out of all that speed.

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Intel itself estimates that the Optane SSD DC P4800X is 8 to 40 times faster than its DC P3700 SSD, with a speed of 600 MB / s. The speeds it reaches are so high that it equates to that of a RAM memory, so we could use this unit when the conventional RAM is full.

They will be available only on servers

With data read and write speeds equaling that of RAM, the increase in application and game load speeds should be outrageous.

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Intel plans to launch drives with larger capacities of 750GB and 1.5TB after the summer, which will surely exceed $ 1, 520 for the 375GB drive. At the moment these types of units will only be available for professional servers and the models that reach the normal consumer have not yet been announced.

The new 3D Xpoint memories developed by Intel in collaboration with Micron seem to be the future of SSDs, which already offer amazing speeds, this would be the next step.

Source: anandtech