note: I’ll update all of these if it changes performance on trx-50 sage vs z790 prime d4 where it’s currently housed
note 2: seeing ~20% performance drop when mounted in a gen 4 slot lower on motherboard, “only” get’s ~320 on RND4KQ1
I actually have 2 of them to make a raid 0, but can’t run them yet until I move on to my new trx-50 sage setup, current z790 i7 is a bottleneck and has poor bifurcation
finally, i have a little e1.s to m.2 adapter also, but i cannot vouch for it because it doesn’t fit anywhere i can mount it (on board, on hyper m2 card, etc), its too wode obviously - originally i was hoping to make some slight mods and run two p5801x inside a hyper m2 card!
I just ordered 2 P5801Xs to put in a dual e1.s carrier card. We’ll see how well VROC deals with them, supposedly it’s better than pure software raid or hardware raid at performance (not parity though).
Also apparently all these e1.s optane drives floating around are facebook oem drives that fell off of a truck and ended up in china somehow.
I bought some paint awhile back and it came with usage log paperwork that the EPA could theoretically audit, I’m not a shop so the chances of that happening are nil, but it is ridiculous nonetheless.
I was hoping the 800 GB SKU would be floating around somewhere too, but nobody is selling them.
The highest capacity P5800X SSD supply is drying up, and these might be next. Did Intel previously say they were going to stop manufacturing Optane products starting 2025?
Me too, I had an eye out for them the last several years but have given up looking for them.
It was my understanding Intel stopped making Optane in the middle of 2022, but was sitting on a large number of the dies that had not been sold because it was selling so much worse than expected. I expect Intel produced products from the built up stock of Optane dies for a year or so after.
As far as successors to Optane, China’s Numemory is making some very underwhelming phase change memory that I expect to get nowhere, even given another +10 years of development.
SK Hynix does have some very promising phase change memory that they are positioning as a natural companion to the CXL protocol, and it is even more technically advanced than Intel’s; it’s often referred to as self-selecting memory rather than phase change or x-point.
I see some p9a3 drives from samsung on server part deals 3.84TB for ~$230.
I see amazon has es.1 to pciex4 but I can’t seem to find an adapter that would be able to house 4 es.1 drives and convert that to pciex16 so I could put them into just one pcie slot instead of having to use 4 slots for 4 of these. Does anyone know of a product like that? or is that too niche?
I was looking for the past week… seems like getting something to hold E1.S devices or to adapt-mount them in standard PC chassis is an untapped market. ICYDOCK has some concept products, but those have been posted for a while and there is no guarantee they will ever make it to market.
highpoint makes an adapter for four or eight (depending on drive height) E1.S drives, but it has a PCIe switch in it so it is slower and very expensive:
