no ssd can be as fast as me skipping through raid shadow legends ads

*I should start watching things that I can afford*

"Traditional nvme" TRADITIONAL. It's been available how long?!

Im starting to think all these product reviews are just setups for tunnelbear

just download more ssd

So basically a product for virtual hosts that is targeted for gamers with a promo code for a game that’s never gonna be released

By the time Star Citizen is released optane ssds will as obsolete as my floppy drive

The name "Optane" always makes me think of propane and butane gas...

Gaming on this is like selling the porsche for a ferarri when all you have are dirt roads.

I need intel on how to optane one of these.

It would be nice to have normal ssd's with ~32-64GB of Optane on board mapped as a seperate drive as a swap-drive due to it's high write endurance and IOPS

Thanks for including a Houdini benchmark! That's my main usecase for my workstation :)

Man that whirlpool looks amazing

is this considered studying

'one big problem' for me is always the PRICE

Honestly I thought it would be more expensive. 600 dollars isn't cheap by any means, but considering the advantages, availability, and that this is super cutting edge, I thought it would be more expensive. Especially in this new era of pc parts where RAM costs as much as your kidneys and a GPU requires you to win the lottery.

Yeah but can it beat my Western Digital IDE HDD?

We need fresh video on the fresh Intel Optane 2020 :D

Thanks for the offer on the case, I checked it out after this video and I now have it as my case for the PC. It's really sleek and I'm proud of my build!

great review. one fast ssd for OS and app boots-another for imaging and storage then a NAS for final backups.

thank you for including ram disk.

Happy to see you guys picked Houdini to show the performance boost!! Finally proper professional software that can push any hardware to its limits. Great choice, keep up the good work !

that "you're winner" trophy. big rigs?

Console: OMG NO LOAD TIMES AND WE FINALLY GOT SSDS Pc:

850 Evo Master Race

But if I buy this, how will I afford all the loot boxes?

One of the better LTT videos in the past year. Much better content and delivery of said content. It's also nice seeing the use case for Optane explained.

This is the first video that I noticed the video quality. Awesome job guys and keep up the good work! I heard you folks shot on a Red Camera, is this it?

To best honest, it will be better to use it as a system drive than gaming storage because of its fast random 4k r/w speed. Also $400 for 280G version of 900P isn't that expensive if you can fully make use of its potential. But marketing it as the ultimate storage for gamers are misleading, as normal sata SSD is good enough for average users.

So I was thinking about setting up a RAM drive... Wanted to buy some extra RAM for that. The same 16gb DDR4 kit I bought at the end of 2015 cost about 75€. Now it's at 160€. This is insane, if I had bought all the components for my current build a little later I would not have been able to afford 16 gigs O_O This RAM and NAND shortage blows...

Awesome you guys included Houdini in your benchmarks. It's the main software I use at work. Thumbs way up!

Have you tried running machine learning with that drive ? I think it's built for that. Could be a great test / benchmark to test machine learning capabilities of hardware. Love your channel!

That Star Citizen card you tossed probably drove half of the sales for this SSD.

But will it fill the hole left by my kidney?

I could see this working as an ultra-fast cache for a high capacity internal storage array. It's actually what I'm intending on using one for :)

The faster SSDs get the lower the benefits seem to be. The difference between playing a game off a SATA-3 SSD and an NVMe SSD are barely noticeable, especially as many games these days have a countdown timer before the match starts anyway lol.

I'm here with the absolute cheapest 120 GB SSD I could afford Also comment what videos (about tech) I should make (:

Buys best SSD, still falls through PUBG map ;)

Not gonna lie, Ive begun really looking forward to these videos, and got legitimately EXCITED when I saw this one about SSD's. I learn SO MANY INTERESTING STUFF when I watch this channel!! :D

well some other or another people was still guessing the answer in your feedback but good thing you put that reply effects in there. at 3:17

thank you for doing houdini tests!

but can it run Meltdown?

Like so much the honesty in this video, a true review. Kudos, I believe what is said in this video.

As always very good and clear info. Regarding the Dark base, is it isolated?

Wake me up when 1TB SSDs cost as much as 1TB HDD's now

When the SSD has more power than my PC

The reason for it not making differences in a work tasks, might be a driver issue. An update for library and integrated API for a drive update would allow u to use optain SSD to its full potential instead on a work tasks or other task, that redunded read and write library codes ;)

very good video, thanks for sharing bro!

This SSD is *T H I C C*

This SSD with the Intel i5 1700 would be a great combo!

Linus and your team.. thank you guys for every video you make.. really so awesome..

I love it when I by chance skip both the sponsor and the intro with 1 click

I would have loved to see Database performance using Octane. That would have been a perfect test bed regarding Physical IO's bot Random and Sequential.

0:05 please, i am watching youtube with tv in living room

The “brought to you by” part of the video always catches me off guard lol

star citizen: when your game loads so slowly that it becomes a feature

If only I could buy one. I had to sell both kidneys to get a GTX 1080 and now whenever I run both my dialysis machine and my desktop at the same time the circuit breaker kicks in and my power goes out.

Let me guess big problem is PRICE.

Seems we love Netherland if we use Tunnelbear ;P Greetings from Netherland! Well, for gamer or other less important jobs, normal SSD will more than enough. Very fast drive are only for big tasks, but even with fastest drive, there are other problems with memory, GPU and CPU... You need almost whole new system for it! Don't forget some software are just not made for it too. :(

yea that hudini thing was amazing we need that tech for games one day hopefully soon.

Star Citizen does know who to market. The person that buys an 600 dollar SSD for gaming also buys hundreds of dollars worth of fake spaceships.

"It also recommends a CPU that doesn't exist." I lost it.

that beQuiet case looks dope, makes me want to build a new pc

Can you guys post a solo video of the SideFX maelstrom? That rendering is AMAZING

"Even your ISP can't track what you're browsing" Oh Linus... Sandvine Technologies just chortled at you.

Yeah if you need a HUGE PageFile (like Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 needs currently if you don't have 32GB of RAM) that SSD would definitely be a benefit. But then again, for the average gamer (including Star Citizens like me) your better off just buying more RAM and getting a lot bigger SSD for cheaper.

in practice, the Optane 900p has nearly 5x the 4K random read speed as the 960Pro

For server's this works great! (using 15) for a online game! So for using in server's, this Optane Mem. works great!

Intel didn't advertise making gaming load speeds faster.... they advertised making a SPECIFIC game load faster... and sensibly so, as you said, its a 200GB game, compared to most normal ones on the larger end of that scale which are a mere 25-33% that size.

0:53 when his spits everywhere...

Oh my god old LTT videos are so good

I see you do the same trick I do to secure a loose ssd...jam paper into it :) Love your vids

I wonder if we are getting close to a RAM-free world. The latency tests suggest *eventually* we may just be able to use a pagefile someday.

I wonder what security steps intel skipped over to make this.

So It looks like this would be a good investment for me since I'm running Houdini! So glad you added Houdini to the mix!! Hope it helps improve the performance of Nuke X also!!

Hi I like your videos simply because you come to the point instantly to the topic, meanwhile those other on KZfaq talks and talks and nothing being said on till the end of the 20 minutes long video. I recently checked out your explanations between single/dual and Multi-Core CPU on your earlier video review. In my case to get rid of my iNTEL G3258 LGA 1150 since one of my computer has 2 Matrox M9148 PCIex16 those two supports up to 12 monitors,,,,, have a another computer with PNY Quadro NVS 510 2GB (128-Bit) 4x mini-DP with the support of 8 monitors. I think you figure out by know the I don’t have a single game on my computer, I’m not into the games. My computer is multitasking due to heavy programs. I would appreciate if you could supply us the viewers so say with just a little bit more information especially for those who doesn’t use the computer for gaming because some complicated questions I’m looking for it’s hard to find on the Internet

When can I Optane one of these?

I would not mind having that starcitizen code if you dont want it ;)

My 905P U.2 is still going strong in 2022. I am surprised this tech didn't go more main stream at over 7 PB of endurance for a 260 GB Drive.

that rendering of the whirlpool is awesome

Did y'all record the intro with a new camera. Image quality and focus looks alot better!? 🤔

It would be 30% faster If It had RBG

Really like the kitchen background , could you use optane for the petabyte project or have as a server rack , I am interested in how it works

That Big Rigs Over The Hills Racing reference. Wow.

Touching pins Touching pins TOUCHING PINS TOUCHING PINS TOUCHING PINS ToUcHiNg PiNs ON CARPET AAAAAAAAAAHHHH

2:05 AAAAHHH oh jesus, don't throw that away, people will pay like $150 for that thing

Tnx bro this info is awesome!!!

Quality content :) Thanks!

Who else noticed the big rigs reference at 6:41?

On load times... sure, because Samsung's controller firmware is optimized for sequential access even at low queue depths, and the operating system's filesystem is going to perform some read-ahead as well (so even though the game might be just doing a single-thread read() loop, the filesystem itself is probably dispatching I/Os at QD2 or QD4). Intel SSDs are not typically optimized for sequential I/O at all. Also, Intel tends not to optimize for large block sizes (though I'm not sure about the optane SSD). Sometimes 32KB block sizes are as big as you can go with Intel without hitting massive losses in performance, whereas with Samsung and other vendors performance ramps up consistently with block size all the way to 128KB. Which is one reason why Intel doesn't usually publish random I/O tests for large block sizes. And Intel's NVMe offerings in general can't handle high-concurrency multi-queue operation very well either (see note 1), whereas Samsung's can. In terms of scratch space... well, yes and no. Optane still doesn't have nearly enough durability to page ram the way Intel tries to market it as being able to do. For nominal scratch space use (and not memory expansion), normal SSDs generally work just as well because VM paging operations tend to be single-threaded by the operating system anyway, and have a huge amount of overhead above and beyond the actual access to storage. In anycase, you just beef up the amount of 3D NAND SSD storage you buy to compensate for the lower durability, and the price still winds up being significantly lower than buying an Optane drive. You can buy 2x to 3x the amount of normal 3D NAND storage for the same price as an Optane drive. I'd argue that having the greater amount of storage is far more useful. Intel's controllers tend to be comedies of poor design, which is why Optane's best advantages are confined to simple cases that very few people actually care about. note 1: by multi-queue I don't mean pushing four I/O requests onto a single queue, I mean pushing one I/O request to each of four NVMe queues. The whole point of NVMe is to be able to assign a chipset queue to EACH cpu in the system, so the operating system can avoid shared resource locks when accessing the storage. Intel does ok when pushing several requests to fewer queues, but performance tends to implode when you try to use the NVMe device's max queues to assign queues 1:1 against CPUs, and then put several requests on each queue concurrently. This is a big problem, because of course the WHOLE POINT of NVMe is to avoid the single-shared-request-queue design of AHCI. But you wouldn't know it from Intel's extremely poor firmwares. -Matt

It came with a $200 ship in Star Cit. I bought the SSD on sale for $240 and sold the key, I literally got the drive for $40

got samsung pro and happy with it. amazing review as usual

Yes yes yessssssssssss I need more stuff to fill PCie slots

How much faster than M.2 could you expect it be when it only uses 4 PCIe lanes? Those 4xM.2 RAID0 PCIe cards from ASRock, Asus, and High Point use all 16 lanes.

I almost thought I was going to get through a LinusTechTips video without hearing a tunnel bear ad.

Damn you Linus ! I was very much into optane before watching this video of yours ! Still, a huge fan of yours !

tunnelbear is back?? did I miss something?

You should have tested load times for star citizen.... That is kind of a use cast that is already in the box.

I so enjoy this guys videos

Where Optane really shines is as a log-type device for not-quite datacenter uses: An an SLOG for your ZFS NAS, for example; the low 1QD latency (which is what limits SLOG in ZFS), makes this a great device. In fact; it pretty much made 2nd-hand ZeusRAM devices off eBay obsolete.