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Hmm, article doesn't say whether or not this is a RAM-less design (probably RAM-less, at this low price-point). Guess we'll have to wait for in-depth reviews.
Micron is calling their version "QuantX", but they haven't announced much about it, or shipped any products. Also, Micron and Intel recently announced an end to their joint venture for NAND flash, but apparently the joint venture for 3D Xpoint is still going on.
I'm sure it would make a good performance improvement, improving upon the current flash-based "SSHD" hybrid drives.
It's a fairly narrow price niche you can wedge yourself into between the cheap-storage HDs and high-performance SSDs, though. Existing hybrid drives have managed to find only a...
One of the problems is that we don't have a benchmark that directly quantifies all those little UI latencies and stutters that something like an Optane drive is supposed to improve.
It's kind of like how people used to argue about how some video cards seemed subjectively smoother than others...