3D XPoint Storage On The Way

[BoFox]

http://wccftech.com/intels-3d-xpoint-mem...onal-ssds/

• The Optane SSD was able to achieve 7.2x times more IOPS at low queue depth and upto 5.21 times the IOPs of conventional SSDs at high queue depths.
  
• An Optane Technology based SSD has 10x times the density of conventional SSD drives.
  
• The marketing material also claims it is 1000x faster than the competition available on the market but it isn’t clear to what exactly they are referring to – a good guess would be latency, as opposed to bandwidth.
  
• Optane SSDs will have 1000x the endurance – which, if true, should mean the device has virtually unlimited life span for practical purposes.
  

Also, regarding the DIMMs:


And the really exciting part:

While one would guess a insanely high price for these new products, Intel has promised a suggested pricing comparable to current flash and DRAM products which will mean that Optane branded products will become economically viable to gain a larger user base when its launched due to high competitive pricing.

With 10x the density of conventional SSDs (and 1000x the reliability), perhaps this spells the true death for mechanical HDD's.