 Okay, so if you've read the title of the video, you've probably got a pretty good idea of What's in this box, but? Clearly at this point. I'm filming the video. I haven't read the title so You're gonna have to humor me as we come along on a voyage of discovery here Okay, so we know it's from Intel Corporation Corporation could this be the plans for world domination that we ordered? I mean what could be what could be red hot rush? That sounds dirty All right, then so let's pop the side panel on this ow puppy There we go and get a better look at What's gonna be pretty much the most generic damn computer I think I've ever seen in my life but wait maybe This is exactly the point. They're trying to make maybe this 3d crosspoint accelerator Optane module is so amazing that it can make even this mid-2000 style beauty fly Well, let's see Browse privately and securely with tunnel bear the simple VPN app Try tunnel bear for free at the link in the video description All right, so what do we got here? We got B250 motherboard the most generic ram ever WD black core i5-7500 yeah, okay, whatever. Let's let's get all over that. Let's get straight to the Optane memory series Optane Module, whatever. Let's let's get over to this thing. So this is a fundamentally new Type of computer memory. It's different from both nan flash and Dram offering up a lot of the benefits of both so lightning fast latency and lower cost than system memory and Lower cost than system memory. Okay here. Let's just pull this out With the ability to retain the data without being constantly powered on like this stuff You can actually learn more about 3d crosspoint in a couple of videos that we've done in the past Which you can check out in the cards up there Okay, so the way this is supposed to work. Why am I holding this? Sorry the way This is supposed to work is kind of like intel's srt technology of yesteryear Where you would take a small ssd and you would like Bolt it to a larger hard drive in order to accelerate your operating system and frequently used programs The difference though is that in the last seven years? We've gone from 32 gigs of nan flash being a reasonable cost to achieve this functionality to 32 gigs of Optane which intel is boasting at the cell level is up to a thousand times better in terms of access latency which should Translate to dramatically improved system responsiveness Okay, so for starters, let's get the most important part of the system Let's get them up Let's get the module back in there get this baby fired up Get this baby fired up and Validate intel's claims the way the product is intended to be used so an optane module With a mechanical spinning hard drive probably shouldn't have been knocking on that So in terms of benchmarks, we used pass marks disk mark Atto at a variety of q-depths boot times and Grand theft auto 5 since its notoriously long loading times are The bane of the existence of gamers who really play a lot of grand theft auto 5 everywhere But come on you guys this is lanus tech tips You don't want to see me test the optane module the way it's supposed to be used to test the optane module The way it's supposed to be used the way intel expects us to test it. We need uh here. Hold on Get one of these out of here. Ah Yes We need an ssd. I mean by my logic If an ssd Could accelerate a hard drive because it's a lot faster with much lower latency Then an optane module Should be able to accelerate an ssd I asked them about this at the super embargoed event and they refused to answer me Opting instead to stick to the marketing message. I'm not gonna accept that. I've got the hardware in my hands There's nothing that would prevent me from testing this so let's shut this baby down the manly way That's right and fire it back up with one of these and have a look at some numbers here Before we can evaluate whether optane can accelerate the ssd we need to get a baseline reading for the ssd In all those same performance benchmarks, so it's a kingston ssd now kc 401 terabyte And you can see here we've got all of our numbers run now and intel optane memory is disabled Now this is really important. We enable it by clicking enable then yes And then it takes a couple of seconds here in order to prepare the system copy some files whatever the case may be Okay, there we go. So now what we need to do is run all of our benchmarks a second time to see on our clean optane run if there's any improvement and The numbers are pretty much the same But we were expecting that optane like any caching solution Works by watching data access patterns over time and then using the knowledge that it gains To predict what data the user is going to need in the future So then what we needed to do was run an entirely new round of testing to get an idea of what the data is going to look like new round of testing to get a second run of data to see what our module learned the first time around and this time Now we are looking at a significant difference And by significant I do mean in the scientific sense not in the sense that in real world applications The average user would actually notice it since the optane acceleration of an ssd was only really noticeable in synthetic benchmarks Okay, so It's conclusion time then That was a lot of fun But I think we uncovered the reason why intel doesn't want people talking about accelerating an ssd with an optane module If you want greater than ssd performance there will actually be Full-on optane ssds for enthusiasts coming in the future, but for now I'd recommend at the price that they come in at so 40 bucks or 77 depending on the capacity you choose I'd recommend sticking with the way intel's marketing them as a way to Accelerate a mechanical hard drive for a system that otherwise wouldn't be able to achieve that level of responsiveness Responsiveness it works like srt, but thanks to the improved responsiveness. We did notice a tangible difference day to day just Launching applications and navigating the operating system from having the optane module installed on our drive Is it worth the 77 bucks for the top of the line one? It's hard to say Like so many things in life. I guess it kind of depends on your priorities And that's where intel has lost me a little bit on this one because they are limiting compatibility with optane memory to 200 series chipsets with kb lake processors And up so most of the people that intel's trying to sell an accelerator module for a hard drive to Have a brand new system, and I would question why exactly it is that they don't then have a boot ssd For that aforementioned system, but I'd love to hear that. I'm wrong Let me know you guys based on what you know now that optane is flipping cool and that it really does work Do you see this as a valid way to use your system? 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