<story><title>The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11209/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-review-a-deep-dive-into-3d-xpoint-enterprise-performance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bbulkow</author><text>Aerospike CTO here. We did a lot of testing with this drive, and the interesting bit is that performance doesn&amp;#x27;t degrade under write pressure. With a NAND drive, when you push writes high ( usually needed in front-edge &amp;#x2F; microservice apps ), the read latencies take a real hit, and often get into millisecond-average at the device. Optane simply doesn&amp;#x27;t behave that way.&lt;p&gt;All of that means you have to code to it differently. It isn&amp;#x27;t DRAM, it&amp;#x27;s not Flash. We&amp;#x27;ve done the work to integrate and test at Aerospike ( semi-plug sorry ), so the system works.&lt;p&gt;The XPoint tech gets really interesting later in the year, when three things happen: the higher density drives show up,  Dell ships their high-NVMe chassis, and more clouds support it.&lt;p&gt;Regarding cloud - IBM&amp;#x27;s BlueMix has announced Optane, and the other providers have a wide variety of plans. I can&amp;#x27;t comment more.&lt;p&gt;Finally, Intel has been clear about putting this kind of tech on the memory bus, and that really opens the doors to some interesting choices, some data structure changes. That requires new coding, we&amp;#x27;re on it.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s an interesting ComputerWorld article about our experience with Optane:
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.computerworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;3188338&amp;#x2F;data-storage&amp;#x2F;what-aerospike-learned-from-testing-intels-superfast-optane-ssds.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.computerworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;3188338&amp;#x2F;data-storage&amp;#x2F;wh...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X (375GB) Review: Testing 3D XPoint Performance</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11209/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-review-a-deep-dive-into-3d-xpoint-enterprise-performance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saosebastiao</author><text>Impressive.&lt;p&gt;On a semi-related note, the fact that cloud providers offer managed Postgres databases is great, but things like this keep pushing me to think about bare metal in colo. A $20,000 server&amp;#x2F;backup combo with a couple of these will give me 5x the performance of a server that costs me $70k&amp;#x2F;year on AWS &lt;i&gt;before provisioned IOPS&lt;/i&gt;. That&amp;#x27;s a huge gap to play with for taking care of your own maintenance costs.</text></comment>