Okay. So if you've read the title of the video, you've probably got a pretty good idea of what's in this box.
But.. oh, I don't have my knife. Clearly, at this point, I'm filming the video.
I haven't read the title. So you're gonna have to humor me. As we come along on a voyage of discovery here.
Okay, so we know it's from Intel Corporation. Could this be the plans for world domination that we ordered?
I mean what could be, what could be red hot rush? That sounds dirty.
(Grunts)
All right then so let's pop the side panel on this, ow, puppy. There we go.
And get a better look at, what's gotta be pretty much the most generic damn computer I think I've ever seen in my life.
But wait! Maybe, this is exactly the point they're trying to make.
Maybe, this 3D Cross Point accelerator optane module is so amazing
That it can make even this mid-2000 style beauty, fly!
Well let's see, if it can.
(Computer placed onto desk)
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All right, so what do we got here?
We got B250 motherboard, the most generic RAM ever, WD black
Core i5 7500, yeah okay, whatever, let's skip all over that. Let's great straight to
The optane memory series optane module, whatever. Let's... let's skip over to this thing.
So this is a fundamentally new type of computer memory.
It's different from both NAND flash and DRAM, offering up a lot of the benefits of both.
So lightning fast latency and lower cost than system memory...
And lower cost than system memory...
Okay, here, let's just pull this out.
With the ability to retain the data, without being constantly powered on like this stuff.
You can actually learn more about 3D Cross Point in a couple of videos that we've done in the past
Which you can check out in the cards up there.
Okay, so the way this is supposed to work, why am I holding this? Sorry.
The way this is supposed to work, is kind of like Intel's SRT technology of yester-year
Where you would take a small SSD and you would like, bolt it to a larger hard drive in order to accelerate your
Operating System and frequently used programs.
The difference, though, is that in the last seven years, we've gone from 32 gigs of NAND flash
Being a reasonable cost to achieve this functionality.
To 32 gigs of optane, which Intel is boasting at the cell level, is up to a thousand times better in terms of access
latency, which should translate to dramatically improved system responsiveness.
Okay so for starters
let's get the
let's get the module back in there, get this baby fired up
get this baby fired up
and validate Intel's claims