Capacity isn't really the massive thing here. The price is.

Kaarme:

Capacity isn't really the massive thing here. The price is.

Prize is low, compare to it's performance @ 4k qd=1. Capacity IS the problem. I have 3x 900p 480GB now 😉

Kaarme:

Capacity isn't really the massive thing here. The price is.

price is not too expensive for pro (think that my pro GPU cost more than 6000 Euro, ECC mem cost more than x3 normal mem etc...)

nizzen:

Prize is low, compare to it's performance @ 4k qd=1. Capacity IS the problem. I have 3x 900p 480GB now 😉

rl66:

price is not too expensive for pro (think that my pro GPU cost more than 6000 Euro, ECC mem cost more than x3 normal mem etc...)

Compared to you guys, I'm a far more miserly PC builder. For me personally the price looks too high. I'd be quite interested in Optane if the price wasn't that much higher than the regular NAND drives boast, that is, if it was ready for the massmarket. Perhaps it never will be.

Kaarme:

Compared to you guys, I'm a far more miserly PC builder. For me personally the price looks too high. I'd be quite interested in Optane if the price wasn't that much higher than the regular NAND drives boast, that is, if it was ready for the massmarket. Perhaps it never will be.

you are not... at home i still have my G3258 under the TV, and very happy of it despite i think that a Ryzen APU might replace it in future 🙂 Optane full pack is intended for pro and so the high price (like the quadro or firepro gpu). Optane for main consumer (the big cache lol) bring almost nothing despite bringing lot on the paper over regular. btw there is other solution than optane that are on dev that are aimed mainstream and work with both Intel and AMD.

Biffo:

I've been happy running a HDD and small cheap SSD using Intel Caching, startup is is 2.6 secs faster then with a M2 960 Pro. Every day stuff is just way faster then with the mightiest SSD. Of course large file copying is not comparable but who cares....I'll take the shear speed over that any day.

Do you have 960 pro, or did you compare startup with another system?

Biffo:

I've been happy running a HDD and small cheap SSD using Intel Caching, startup is is 2.6 secs faster then with a M2 960 Pro. Every day stuff is just way faster then with the mightiest SSD. Of course large file copying is not comparable but who cares....I'll take the shear speed over that any day.

If you don't care, then it's obviously all good for you. I keep all my installed games on an SSD as well because the speed does matter to me. There's no going back once you have got used to an SSD. In any case the original consumer lolptane was meant for cases like yours: to give spinning HDD owners something. Basic SSDs aren't so expensive these days, though, that I fail to see the meaningfulness in spending an M.2 socket for some 16/32 GB toy. But then again, the cache thing doesn't work with my Skylake system anyway, so it's purely academic for me. I'd only be interested in devices that work like regular SSDs and don't require me to sell a kidney to afford.