alt Hacker NewsOptane was in the market during a time when the mainstream trend in the SSD industry was all about sacrificing endurance to get higher capacity. It's been several years, and I'm not seeing a lot of regrets from folks who moved to TLC and QLC NAND, and those products are more popular than ever.
The niche that could actually make use of Optane's endurance was small and shrinking, and Intel had no roadmap to significantly improve Optane's $/GB which was unquestionably the technology's biggest weakness.
> I'm not seeing a lot of regrets from folks who moved to TLC and QLC NAND, and those products are more popular than ever.
That's interesting. Even TLC has huge limitations, but QLC is basically useless unless you use it as write-once-read-many memory.
I wish I have bought a lot of SSDs when you could still buy MLC ones.