Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X – 3D XPoint Has Landed

[Patrick Kennedy]

What may be the biggest launch of 2017, Intel Optane SSD P4800X is now available enabling some exciting new use cases with its performance and endurance

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[Patrick]

Working on getting 2.5" drives into the DemoEval lab.

 

[gigatexal]

won't non-pci-e drives defeat the purpose as the interface is capped far below the full pci-e 3.0 spec?

 

[lowfat]

8x the performance in low queue depth performance....Colour me intrigued.

 

[Patrick]

won't non-pci-e drives defeat the purpose as the interface is capped far below the full pci-e 3.0 spec?

2.5" U.2 = PCIe 3.0 x4.

 

[Spartus]

When I first heard about optane I was pretty excited, but between then and now DRAM & NAND got better and optane seems to have gotten worse (maybe because its old specs were relative to old technology). Anyways, I know what Intel prices are like for new technology, and I can buy DDR4 for what, $6 per gig and NVME NAND at sub 50c. They better have optane at sub $2 or I just can't see myself caring for my applications.

 

[T_Minus]

This is exciting especially for those of us with smaller databases!!

@Patrick any cost info publicly available yet?

 

[Kneelbeforezod]

So will we see used P3600/P3700 Price dropping on Ebay as everyone upgrades to Optane?

 

[kiteboarder]

What does it take to support the Memory drive technology? Has anyone found a link to what processors / chipsets are supported/required? Thanks in advance if you find it!

$1500 is a steal for 375 GB of memory, even if it is slow-ish in some scenarios.

 

[T_Minus]

This is exciting especially for those of us with smaller databases!!

@Patrick any cost info publicly available yet?

"Intel's DC P4800X will initially come to market as a 375GB AIC (Add-In Card) with a $1,520 price point, or roughly $4.05 per GB, and is available today. The company will add 750GB and 1.5TB capacity points in both AIC and U.2 form factors."

 

[Jeggs101]

I was hoping for $2-3/GB. $1000 I'd have one tomorrow

 

[T_Minus]

At 400GB capacity I feel "meh" at $1500 I feel even more "meh" and puts that size for most I feel not needed... maybe if you're at capacity with a p3700 cache and feel it could 'get you over' the hump...

It was possible for many many many months to get 32GB DDR4 LRDIMMS for $125-$140.
12 DIMMS * 130$ = 1560$ = 384GB

I'll take the RAM and a "low price" P3700 800GB (half price of that 400GB) for the persistent storage, lol.

 

[eva2000]

oooh memory storage + redis cluster/replication backed cache ?

 

[Deci]

@Patrick can you test one setup in an "extended memory" configuration so its effectively slower ram? cheaper than ram and fast enough for cache as a storage server?

 

[gigatexal]

2.5" U.2 = PCIe 3.0 x4.

Ahhh I'm dumb.

 

[Deci]

one other thing, can you test it for SLOG performance too?

 

[gigatexal]

Im wicked curious how this performs as a secondary ram layer, and as a database disk. Looking forward to the review

 

[Patrick]

Just as a FYI guys - I am also working to get a setup with NVMe as RAM. Hoping in a few weeks.

 

[kiteboarder]

Found this slide showing system requirements.

(Also saw in one review that the Memory drive technology software may be an additional $400. I have no proof of this, just repeating what was in the review.)

 

[eva2000]

i thought 3D Xpoint was Intel Skylake or newer ? so Xeon v2 processors supported ?