Yeah. Which is probably why they did this promo marketing with CIG. Star Citizen already had similar deals with Saitek and AMD.
10 Reasons Why Intel’s Bleeding-Edge Optane Drive Is a Rip-Off
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reason…-drive-rip-off/
“Optane costs a fortune per gigabyte. It doesn’t work well with laptops. It doesn’t work with desktops older than 2016. It doesn’t work on non-Intel systems. It’s not a magic bullet for performance. It’s superfluous on an SSD-only system. So what’s the purpose of an Optane cache drive?
There’s just one reason: to pressure you into upgrading your motherboard and processor to Intel’s latest. And in that regard, it fails miserably. There’s no reason to buy it unless you’re looking to get your feet wet with a cutting edge technology.
Right now, only commercial users should purchase Optane. The cache drive is a waste of time. However, it’s worth noting that Intel will bundle 16 GB sticks of Optane along with certain 200-series motherboards. So if you’re in the market for a new high-end motherboard, it might be worth a look. Everyone else interested in Optane, however, should wait until Micron releases QuantX. Not only will competition cause Intel’s ruinous per-gigabyte prices to fall, Micron’s product isn’t a first-generation design.”
Optane is potentially very interesting in certain server/data center models in a few years. I don’t see a reason to have it in a consumer machine now.
Read the Anandtech review for a good overview…how fast it is (blazing) and the workloads that will benefit the most:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11953/the-intel-optane-ssd-900p-review
Yep, this. Datacentre use cases, sure, but I doubt even an enthusiast home user would notice any significant difference over a decent SSD or NVMe.
And Derek’s article is slightly out of date as it refers to the earlier Optane ‘cache’ drives, whereas this new model is more a direct SSD/NVMe replacement.
Promo deals make it look like something is happening, and also ties in Star Citizen with reputable firms. Must be legit if Intel, Saitek and AMD are aligned with them.
While there’s obviously a lot of crazy shit to complain about for SC, I don’t see this SSD thing being an issue. It’s marketing resources. I don’t think any developers or coders are losing time to this. It’s just business (and probably good business from the SC perspective, at that).
Now, that stupid face tracking thing is a whole different story.
They’ve certainly been busy! My weather app just got an update:
MyRadar is a fast, easy-to-use, weather application that displays animated weather radars around your current location, allowing you to quickly see what weather is coming your way. Our High Definition Doppler radar data is processed from raw NOAA weather radar data… MyRadar has teamed up with CIG to allow players to view the Moons of Stanton! To enable this experence open the Map Type menu and select Yela, Daymar, or Cellin.
wtf…
You have got to be joking me…
Heh, I use that app also. Too funny.
When you choose the location does it then offer you an in-app purchase to show you a jpeg of static colors representing simulated weather?
I just had to quickly run and make sure Weather Underground has not become infected yet. Whew. No Moons Of Stanton yet.
Hey maybe they could start a deal with Equifax.
My early reading on the new Optane XPoint tech was that the longevity of SSDs using it would be so much better than current SSDs that it made it really attractive. Is that no longer the case? I’d pay more for a SSD that’s not going to suddenly die on me (but not all that much more).
I’m not aware of any real wear concerns with modern SSDs under workloads I’m familiar with. It’s really most interesting because there’s a huge gap in performance and size between RAM and disk, and there’s this new tech that can slot in there. What does that mean for software like databases? Potentially interesting things.
Optane is really cool but not much point in games. I doubt you’d even get much of a loading time benefit over a regular NVME SSD. You would have to build an engine/console around the idea of very fast storage as a baseline.
Are you willing to pay $400 for a 280GB SSD that has a really, really, really, really, really long life?
Or $300 for a 1TB SSD that doesn’t have as long a life, but will still be functionally obsolete looooong before it wears out.
Yeah. Not to mention that the AMD tech is already obsolete, Saitek is bust and the controller never happened. And the game isn’t out yet. So it makes sense they would partner with Intel on yet another bespoke DOA (read the reviews) tech that’s enthusiast targeted.
Yeah, I saw that yesterday. It’s unbelievable.
The best reviews: