Optane Memory uses a "least recently used" (LRU) approach to determine what gets stored in the fast cache. All initial data reads come from the slower HDD storage, and the data gets copied over to the ...

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Optane has the potential to significantly boost the speed and responsiveness of PCs powered by conventional hard disk drives. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading ...

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Optane has long occupied a kind of no man's land in personal computing, but Intel aims to change that with its latest drive. Known as 3D XPoint before the "Optane" rebrand, the technology exists as a ...

Intel recently unveiled its Optane Memory products last month, though the company has been co-developing its underlying memory technology with partner Micron for years now. The 3D Xpoint memory ...