Intel Optane Memory 32GB M.2 HDD Accelerator

Intel Optane made my PC lightning fast. I have Windows 10 (64 bit) installed on an SSHD hybrid drive. Because the hybrid drives are faster than ordinary hard drives I didn't expect much improvement with Optane. However, I am truly surprised at how fast Windows 10 now boots, it's almost instant. Also other startup programs now load at boot time almost instantly too. Only down side was that I had a dual boot system with Ubuntu on a second hard drive. After installing Optane, Ubuntu disappeared. To be fair Intel do warn about adverse side effects of installing Optane on a dual boot system. Apart from the dual boot OS factor, Optane is a real performance boost for the whole system, and a lot cheaper than buying an SSD. It's easy to install the Optane card too. Intel have anOptane card video install how-to on their site, which I found the easiest to follow (much easier than wading through the pdf written install how-to). Just make sure your PC meets all the minimum requirements for Optane (also listed on Intel's site), and follow the instructions to the letter. Remember to backup any data on any additional OS you have installed (in a dual boot system) before installing Optane.

I'd been meaning to give AMD's StoreMI software a try and wanted to play with a cheap Optane module in order to do so.I ordered the 16GB model to pair with my 120GB KingDian SSD on my Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra Gaming motherboard, popped it in the NVME slot and set up StoreMi in Windows 10 Professional. At this point, both drives were fused into a single C: drive in Windows and I left StoreMI software to learn my application launch habits to enhance my most used applications.You can see the increase in read speeds on the CrystalDiskMark screenshots throughout vs the SATA drive on its own but, some of the write speeds were lower due to the lesser write speeds of the Optane unit vs the KingDian.On top of the enhanced reads of the Optane unit alone, you can also allocate 2GB of your system RAM to further increase performance which is shown on the third screenshot.Overall, boot times are quicker, application load times are even faster and the system seems as fluid and responsive as ever.Pleased with the result and no regrets in experimenting. I can imagine things are even better when an Optane unit is paired with a standard hard drive.For those who want to utlilise an unused NVME slot and to speed up an existing drive, this is worth considering.

I have come to realise that an Optane accelerated system is similar to running RAID 0 - it increases the chances for something to go wrong. 98% of the time it is great. Its a cheap way to dramatically accelerate your system. However Optane has failed me twice now. Once after a power-cut my PC would not reboot because Optane got corrupted when the power went down. Windows Recovery disk was no help with Optane and I had to reinstall Windows from scratch. The other time, the Optane software stopped working after a Windows feature update, I had to disable WIn Fast Boot, then disable and re-enable Optane (this is not a quick thing to do). I expect this software reliability will get better if Optane popularity increases, but right now I would not recommend it to someone not technically confident - an SSD may be a better, if more expensive option.

if you have a slow drive, or any drive that you want to speed up this is great.Be aware that you cannot accelerate multiple drives. And you cannot have 2 of these modules working. So you can only accelerate one drive with one of these modules and that is it.Even if you have multiple M.2 slots, only one module will work.they should definitely improve this, and make it work with more drives, and support more intel optane modules.To activate it is very simple, but if you run into trouble just contact the intel support, I contacted them and they solved the problem, quick and easy, and i got a follow up email the day after that to check if everything was working and if i had any more doubts or questions.

This was very close to being a 1-star review, in fact I'd started writing it a couple of days ago. Intel didn't advertise that the module would only speed up the boot drive of a system, rendering it pretty useless to a large proportion of potential users. The normal use case for such a device would be in a system with a small SSD boot drive and a large mechanical secondary drive which could do with the acceleration.But as of today they finally released v16 of the Optane/RST drives enabling secondary drive acceleration. In my particular build, it makes quite a bit of difference. Whilst the write speed is pretty much as it was, the read speed has increased from 120MB/s to around 900MB/s. Games load almost instantly (after they've made it into the cache). Be aware though that this semi-permanently pairs with one of your drives and if either the device or drive goes, you lose your data. I don't foresee this being a particular problem though as the device montiors itself for issues and will warn if anything untoward is happening, giving you a chance to disable it.Overall, a very nice bit of kit.

Not straight forward to install as it requires some tinkering in the BIOs to set the memory modules to the right mode, and a software download to configure things in the operating system side. If you are a self builder you should have no issues though. I installed this after windows, on a non boot drive, and the results are fantastic. 2600 read and over 1000 write in Crystal disk mark, on a drive that before was struggling to get over 100.

Having used the 32GB module for a while and I have to say I'm not impressed. Because the cache is so small (27GB of usable cache) it fills up very quickly so the benefit of the cache is very limited, the OS frequently is slow to boot up. SSDs have tumbled in price making Optane an even less attractive option. I have just switched to a Crucial P1 500GB SSD and what a big improvement it is. For Optane to consistently boot up the OS and applications it would need to have a much bigger capacity but that would make it ridiculously expensive. It's far better to use a SSD so a can't recommend this product.

La compré para una HP Omen 15-dcxxx y le quedó perfecto. Mejoró bastante el rendimiento del disco HDD que trae de fábrica. Lo compre para probar y porque era más barato que un SSD y no me decepcionó. El detalle es la configuración, hay que entender que se está haciendo, de lo contrario va ser frustrante y pensar que no sirve. Otro detalle es el uso que se le va dar, yo la utilizo para desarrollo y software pesado.

Let's make one thing clear right off the bat- this is not meant for primary storage. 32 GB won't even take care of a basic home Windows Installation at the moment. However if you need something blazing fast for say a server installation, this handles that in spades and for a very reasonable price point.And it's fast. Very VERY fast.

Intel optane does what it's supposed to! I popped one into a friend's prebuilt system when he complained about slowdown and it decreased his bootup times as well as increased launch speeds in the programs he uses the most. However, optane isn't a magic fix that can turn your entire hard drive into something with SSD speeds, but it will accelerate load times for things you do often like booting up, or opening your web browser. With the recent drop in the prices of SSD's, I would recommend that most of you looking at this product just buy a cheap SSD.

Weiß nicht genau für was das ist, aber ich kann auf jeden fall sagen das sich Sachen wie spiele etc. schneller damit laden :)

Useful for a laptop with HDD as it makes the boot and other basic operations faster. However. I recommend going for 32gb variant as only 13 GB is available on this one and majority features such as application pinning is only allowed on the 32GB variant. I myself wish to replace this for the 32GB.