alt Hacker NewsHmm, for most desktop stuff, you're still limited to random access, where even if leagues above HDD, the NVMe still suck compared to sequential. It's sad that intel killed Optane/3D X-point, because those are mych better at random workloads and they had still lower latencies than the latest NVMe (not by much anymore).
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mschuster91 • yesterday at 3:03 PM
Thing is, with Apple, even the bottom of the barrel entry devices (aka MBAs) get the high performance storage.
With Windows, you're probably still getting SATA and not even NVMe.
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I don't understand why Optane hasn't been revived already for modern AI datacenter workloads. Being able to augment and largely replace system RAM across the board with something cheaper (though not as cheap as NAND, and more power-hungry too) ought to be a huge plus, even if the technology isn't suitable for replacing HBM or VRAM due to bulk/power constraints.