Month: February 2023

Optane’s Legacy, Part II: Two-Speed Memory and Latency Handling

Photo of an Optane DIMM

A lot of folks believe that when Intel’s Optane is gone there will be nothing left but the story of its rise and fall.  That is far from the truth.  Optane has created a legacy of developments that will find use in computing for quite some time.

In this three-part series The SSD Guy blog reviews Optane’s lasting legacy to reveal six changes that it has brought to computing architecture in its short lifetime.

Each of the three parts covers two new developments:

This second post will cover Continue reading “Optane’s Legacy, Part II: Two-Speed Memory and Latency Handling”

Mardi Gras vs. SSD Garbage Collection

Silhouette of a hopping rabbitMardi Gras is a good time for The SSD Guy to bend your mind.  It’s the day before Ash Wednesday kicks off Lent, which is the official start of the Easter season.

And it never seems to happen on the same date.

I will compare SSD garbage collection to the timing of the Easter season.  There are surprising similarities.

Very few people understand Continue reading “Mardi Gras vs. SSD Garbage Collection”

Optane’s Legacy, Part I: New Programming Paradigm and Instructions

Photo of an Optane DIMMA lot of folks believe that when Intel’s Optane is gone there will be nothing left but the story of its rise and fall.  That is far from the truth.  Optane has created a legacy of developments that will find use in computing for quite some time.

In this three-part series The SSD Guy blog reviews Optane’s lasting legacy to reveal six changes that it has brought to computing architecture in its short lifetime.

Each of the three parts covers two new developments:

Intel’s Optane, the new memory/storage technology that was Continue reading “Optane’s Legacy, Part I: New Programming Paradigm and Instructions”