Their add-in cards started with 375GB using a single 3D XPoint die per package and 28 packages total. This M.2 drive should be four dies per package (three packages on the front, four on the back). With NAND flash memory, it's common to stack up to 16 dies per package.
I'm kinda confused by the breadth of 3D Xpoint / Optane products. Are these SSDs regular SSDs that are recodnized by all M.2 PCIe/NVME supporting systems or do they need special Intel Optane support like I saw a while back? Or was that just for the Optane caching modules or the Optane DIMM RAM modules?
All of the Optane products you can actually buy right now are standard NVMe SSDs, in a variety of form factors and capacities. The Optane Memory M.2 and Optane SSD 800P M.2 SSDs are supported by Intel's Optane Memory caching software, but can also be used as plain NVMe SSDs. The 905P M.2 might also work with the Optane Memory caching software, and it will definitely function as a plain NVMe SSD in any M.2 type-M slot that provides PCIe lanes.
The Optane DIMMs will be the first Optane products that really require specific CPU and motherboard support to use at all.
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Chaitanya - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link
How is intel managing to pack so much density into M.2 FF considering their PCI-e AIC has 20+ Xpoint chips.Billy Tallis - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link
Their add-in cards started with 375GB using a single 3D XPoint die per package and 28 packages total. This M.2 drive should be four dies per package (three packages on the front, four on the back). With NAND flash memory, it's common to stack up to 16 dies per package.Death666Angel - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link
I'm kinda confused by the breadth of 3D Xpoint / Optane products. Are these SSDs regular SSDs that are recodnized by all M.2 PCIe/NVME supporting systems or do they need special Intel Optane support like I saw a while back? Or was that just for the Optane caching modules or the Optane DIMM RAM modules?Billy Tallis - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link
All of the Optane products you can actually buy right now are standard NVMe SSDs, in a variety of form factors and capacities. The Optane Memory M.2 and Optane SSD 800P M.2 SSDs are supported by Intel's Optane Memory caching software, but can also be used as plain NVMe SSDs. The 905P M.2 might also work with the Optane Memory caching software, and it will definitely function as a plain NVMe SSD in any M.2 type-M slot that provides PCIe lanes.The Optane DIMMs will be the first Optane products that really require specific CPU and motherboard support to use at all.
Death666Angel - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
Thanks! :D