Got an email from SuperMicro today about the Micron 7450. Took a deeper dive and gosh, they look a lot like Optane.
I’m thinking @wendell could host an 8x15.36TB 7450 build soon? 
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They call it the most advanced NAND and then go on to explain it.
Physically it might not be Optane, but spec-wise? Impressive stuff.
I wonder how much longer it will be till the 232 layer stuff is out, would make this already “old” in their own ranks. I wonder if it differes in speed vs quantity.
Have been taking a look at a 7450 3.84 TB for a while, seems okay for NAND. It’s the second unit I got, the first had died during active operation while writing to it (in total only about 2 TBW).
This second one looks stable.
And? Performance is exceptional? Just ok? Dumpster-fire? 
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Expand the quoted area in my previous posting to see the benchmarks.
“Okay” is a rather high praise from me. 
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- Power loss protection in a M.2 2280 form factor (very rare)
- Multi-terabyte capacity for the M.2 form factor
- Excellent performance that basically leaves nothing lacking for anything I’d throw at it
Once it comes down from being about double the cost of other drives, this will make a whole bunch of options outright obsolete for me when it comes to looking for something to put in a future laptop.
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Got it - how did you mount the U.3 device to your system? Through a PCIe AIC or did you cable it to a U.2 interace?
The benchmarks were done with the 7450 in an Icy Dock MB699VP-B V2 NVMe backplane, the backplane itself was connected to a Broadcom P411W-32P, an active PCIe Gen4 Switch add-in card.
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Pretty swanky! Thanks for sharing.
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