Optane 800p is the fastest storage you can buy right now. It is expensive. It will be 3.5 times higher than SSD. However, it's cost money... to try state-of-the-art technology.
There was not many choices in storage. It is HDD consisting of a traditional magnetic disk or NAND type storage. The latter is known as the flash drive, the adoption model has increased in smartphones. But the NAND drive is fast, but Optane 800p is even faster.
People who are familiar with the naming Optane may recall that the type of memory. Optane memory is a memory to be used in combination with storage such as HDD to the last. On the other hand, though the appearance is similar, the Optane 800p is a clear storage, HDDs is unnecessary. If you insert it in the M2 slot of the motherboard, you can experience the high-speed storage.
Sandisk x400 seems to be considered SSD of average performance. Most people do not even know the model name as to what kind of SSD is equipped on my PC right now.
Benchmark tests on models with nearly the same specifications, models replaced with Sandisk x400 or Optane 800p. Just by exchanging storage in this way, PC performance will be improved easily, so it may be called the most basic upgrade method. If data reading and writing speed improve, it will lead to faster processes.
Upgrading storage is not as simple as accelerating every process. In above benchmark comparison, there was no difference in the time required to launch the Chrome browser, even with models equipped with Sandisk x400 or models equipped with Optane 800p. As 4K movies and Photoshop, the difference still did not take 1 second. In the time difference when loading the action shooting game and reading it, it was a result that Sandisk x400 was faster, slightly.
The big difference was that the Optane 800p faster by 3.52 seconds than the Sandisk x400 in launching the action RPG. This also has a difference of more than 5 seconds. Actually, much larger and more complex than games overwatched as games. In other words, it seems clear that the reality that the more powerful and complex tasks the Optane 800p's power is fully demonstrated!
The launch of Adobe Premiere, which is also a typical heavy program, the speed of the Optane 800p has improved by nearly twice the Sandisk x400. Also, the startup time of Windows 10 took only 10.81 seconds for the Optane 800p model, whereas the Sandisk x400 model took 17.89 seconds.
As a the hard task is Optane 800p is clear, convert 22 RAW images into JPEG files in Photoshop. The Optane 800p model finishes the task 6.34 seconds faster than the Sandisk x400 model. It seems that there are a lot of scenes that you can experience the difference in daily work. Even in the task of copying 6.3 GB files, the speed of the Optane 800p has been more than 3x speed.
Just replacing the storage with Optane 800p, it is felt like a very attractive upgrade that you can shorten working time. However, it is expensive anyway.
Currently, two models are available for the Optane 800p, the 58 GB model 130USD and 118 GB model 200USD.
Intel is already pursuing partnerships with major laptop makers and it is likely models that standardize the Optane 800p. It may be a dream high-speed storage for general users, until the price drop bit more.
