On 28 Jul 2015, at 22:29, Graeme B. Bell <graeme.bell@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Entering production, availability 2016 > 1000x faster than nand flash/ssd , eg dram-latency > 10x denser than dram > 1000x write endurance of nand > Priced between flash and dram > Manufactured by intel/micron > Non-volatile http://www.anandtech.com/show/9541/intel-announces-optane-storage-brand-for-3d-xpoint-products Some new information (for anyone putting thought into 2016 DB hardware purchases). Throughput seems to be good. >7x better IOPS than one of the best enterprise PCIe SSDs on the market, with queue depth 1, >5x better as queue depth gets higher. Graeme. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance