Intel Optane M10 as an SSD on linux

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Hey Guys,

I have a friend I'm giving a surprise Xmas present. He's a programmer/linux only type guy.

He currently has an i7-3770k, but not sure how much ddr3. He's a USA'ian but living in France where stuff is more expensive.

I was thinking of building him the following:

Ryzen 1700x
B450 motherboard
16G ddr4 ddr4-2400 "ryzen compatible"

Now about the SSD/boot drive....He may want to install this & get it up & running before tearing down his current system. I was thinking that an M10 32GB optane for $41. It fits the budget as well.

Anyone tried this?

 

[B00nie]

32Gb drive is pretty small. I would go with a larger 'regular' SSD instead. You can get a 120gb Samsung EVO for 41 bucks most likely. Linux boots fast even without SSD.

 

[Mazzspeed]

Hey Guys,

I have a friend I'm giving a surprise Xmas present. He's a programmer/linux only type guy.

He currently has an i7-3770k, but not sure how much ddr3. He's a USA'ian but living in France where stuff is more expensive.

I was thinking of building him the following:

Ryzen 1700x
B450 motherboard
16G ddr4 ddr4-2400 "ryzen compatible"

Now about the SSD/boot drive....He may want to install this & get it up & running before tearing down his current system. I was thinking that an M10 32GB optane for $41. It fits the budget as well.

Anyone tried this?

My OS install with takes up 39GB with associated dependencies relating to the fairly sizeable amount of software I have installed on my /home drive. That's remarkably lean, you might get away with 32GB if you don't install too much software/associated dependencies. Linux is pretty good like that.

 

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My OS install with takes up 39GB with associated dependencies relating to the fairly sizeable amount of software I have installed on my /home drive. That's remarkably lean, you might get away with 32GB if you don't install too much software/associated dependencies. Linux is pretty good like that.

Can always make a home drive as a mountpoint

 

[Mazzspeed]

Can always make a home drive as a mountpoint

I know for a fact that you'll get by with a 64GB SSD as an OS drive/root partition no problems. I know this because I did it for many years until I upgraded to an m.2 SSD and resized the partition.