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3d crosspoint or as intel prefers to call it probably for sex appeal reasons octane now we had a hands-on look at this technology back in april with these tiny low capacity models that were designed to make a hard drive that they accompanied performed more like a traditional SSD and it worked pretty well so since then we've been itching to get our hands on one of the full fat obtained drives that intel has been promising for years and get our hands on one we did but what does the real-world performance of a storage medium whose raw performance is claimed to be up to a thousand times faster than man flash look like well let's find out after I tell you today's video is brought to you by be quiet the dark bass 700 is extremely versatile and features RGB LED lighting plus a tempered glass side panel window and more check it out at the link below the octane 900p is a four lane PCI Express 3.0 card with an all-metal heatsink and an easily removable backplate that's full of helpful information about the drive on a sticker but what's more interesting is actually what's underneath so here we see our first indication that there is more to this card than just a PCI Express 2 m dot 2 converter board like you might expect then when we flip it over and gently spudge off the heatsink proper it reveals more of the same this is absolutely a purpose-built card and the comparably immense cooler and beefy onboard processor should tell you this SSD means business which is kind of strange considering the star citizen promo on the box now you can learn more about obtained here but for now the TL DR is this the exact details of obtains arrangement are a trade secret but the end result is a storage latency of a theoretical thousand times faster than traditional mend making it only 10 times slower than in that sense then D Ram so while Intel's rated sequential read and write speeds don't even get us fast as a fast SSD like a samsung 960 pro it handles significantly more operations per second with seven times the write endurance on this consumer product and a mind splitting 34 times the write endurance for the data center oriented obtain P 4800 X making the finite lifespans of NAND based products a concern that we can bury in the past so the high-end video editors and data scientists out there are salivating right now because this kind of speed and endurance makes these larger drives amazing for use as scratch disks as for what that means for gamers well intel says that load times will be significantly reduced and suddenly that star citizen promo makes more sense because this game recommends a 200 gig SSD so to test this thing we need a CPU and a platform capable of taking full advantage of it we chose our x2 99 bench with a mix of synthetic and real-world benchmarks our SSDs by the way were secured raced in preparation for testing in Crystal disc mark we see more or less as advertised speeds across our drives with octane scoring quite a bit higher on the 4k randoms at a Q depth of 1 than the others hinting at its capability for much higher responsiveness moving on to performance tests we can see that octane managed much more consistent latency that edges closer to but not quite Ram disk levels of responsiveness this is super impressive and it's at this point then that we wondered whether or not obtained would make a difference for some of the heavy tasks that we deal with around the office like editing 8k red video footage and premiere or rendering with SolidWorks but as it turns out no no it does not SolidWorks finished its i/o test about 4 seconds faster on obtain so loading or saving would be your primary benefit here unless you run out of RAM during a simulation that could be a very different story and as for premiere well in a gigantic surprise to no one it is so poorly optimized for this that when we simulated a low memory situation with a 24 gig ram drive it just choked no matter which drive we had our swap file or the footage on so then we secured erase the drives again and copied over our Steam library to see if we could spot any differences in game load times which unfortunately due to the massive install sizes of many modern games means that we say goodbye to our RAM disk in our testing from here on out rebooting between runs we ended up with well honestly pretty underwhelming results compared to the sound song 960 Pro biggest Delta between them was only a little over half a second and even our aging Kingston KC 400 and fashioned SATA SSD really doesn't do poorly here though this is another non surprise to people who pay closer attention to benchmarks than they do to marketing one last secure race and an install of Ubuntu later our final test is Houdini a piece of software by side effects that handles physics simulations for the high end rendering used by big blockbuster film and game companies our test file will be a rendering of a maelstrom that has 1.1 billion particles interacting with each other so just one frame is gonna eat our RAM for breakfast meaning that our RAM disk again is not coming back as for the rest well to generate 8 frames our 960 Pro Kover an hour of i/o thrashing while our octane killed it in just under 29 minutes as for the KC 400 while we gave it a participation trophy so then should you go out and spend $600 on an only 480 gig octane drive if you're a normal user I'm gonna come right out and say no because the chances are pretty slim that you would ever notice a difference compared to a traditional nvme SSD and even a SATA one is probably fine for you in most cases as for heavier workloads well maybe if you must have the best of the best but I'm gonna come out and tell you again that you are not going to feel a difference like you did when you went from a hard drive to a conventional SSD it's not like that with that said if you have a real workload that can benefit from obtains versatility as not just hyper fast storage like running many virtual machines off of a single Drive but also its low latency and lower cost compared to system memory where you can use it as an overflow for your RAM like in our Maelstrom demo well then while the price of entry is steep the benefits may just outweigh the costs speaking of a very high benefit to cost ratio tunnel Bayer VPN is the simple to use VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet with tunnel bear turned on your Wi-Fi connection is secured and your online activity is kept private from your internet provider advertisers or anyone who's looking to track you or profit from your data tunnel bear has a top rated privacy policy and does not log your activity and they have servers in over 20 countries with fast connections with their own DNS servers so once you're in your tunnel everything you do is encrypted social media pages won't be able to track you region blocks that don't want you to watch certain videos won't be active and even your isp can't see what you're 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