Some Kaby Lake-Based systems will ship with Intel Optane storage solutions

[WYP]

Some Kaby Lake-Based systems will ship with Intel Optane storage solutions, using XPoint memory to act as a ultra-fast caching solution.



Read more on Intel's Optane XPoint Storage accelerators.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Wonder if this will actually be useful or even noticeable with a NVMe based system.

 

[WYP]

Wonder if this will actually be useful or even noticeable with a NVMe based system.

Well given how this will use an M.2 slot, I expect that nobody will use with an M.2 NMVe SSD given how few PCIe lanes desktops have at their disposal.

I do wonder how this would work with SATA SSDs though.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Depending on it's speed, it would be noticeable I'd think for sata ssds. For OS tasks it should help moreso than games. I don't expect that to change.