Intel’s Optane technology promises fairly big jumps in performance, and that’s a good thing. Unfortunately, knowing where to find Optane and when it’s important is more of a challenge, so we’ve ...

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Intel's Optane Memory technology, introduced a few years back, was originally designed to speed up a PC's hard drive without adding the expense of a full-fledged solid-state drive (SSD). A combination ...

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 ...