Optane P1600X AMD laptop

[Rabidus]

Intel now have Optane p1600x with m2 80mm which in general fit laptops. Unfortunately, I have AMD based laptop. I do understand that Optane software will not work for sure.  I wonder if this product will work "just as SSD" but with high random 4k read and low latency. Or will there be any significant problem?

[BrusC_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hello, Rabidus.

Thank you for posting on the Intel Community Support Forum.

I received your ticket regarding the Intel® Optane™ SSD P1600X Series, and I will be assisting you with this.

Intel® Optane™ SSD (and Data Center SSD) work the same way as any regular NVMe SSD, with the use of Optane (3D XPoint) technology instead of NAND, meaning that you should have no problems using your P1600X series in that system as long as it supports NVMe drives.

There are different types of Optane products, and the limitations/requirements you mentioned are related to the Intel Optane Memory line of products; Optane Memory require an Intel CPU and Intel RST support to be properly configured. Find more information here:

- Optane Memory types: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058286/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-memory.html

I would still recommend checking with the laptop manufacturer (OEM) in case they have tested any Optane drives in that particular system, or if they have any other details or recommendations that we are not aware of from the Intel product support side, but beyond that, you should be fine.

If you have any questions, please let me know, and I will follow up on October 13th in case you want to keep the thread open a bit longer.

Regards,

Bruce C.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[Rabidus]

Hello Bruce,

Thanks a lot for your reply.  It is great news!

Maybe you accidently know specification of this P1600X, which are not mentioned on its page (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/211867/intel-optane-ssd-p1600x-series-118gb-m-2-80mm-pcie-3-0-x4-3d-xpoint/specifications.html). I am interested in random Latency  (read)? and what is "speed" for random 4k read (in MB/s) because on site "4K read" mentioned in IOPS but it is not mentioned if it is QD1 or something else. I could not find any detailed review on it.  As far as I understand from specification it should be close to old one like 900p series. Is it so?

Kind regards

[BrusC_Intel]

Hello, Rabidus..

Thank you for your reply.

You can use the following document for reference:

- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/data-center-ssds/optane-ssd-p1600x-white-paper.html

In short, latency for Sequential Reads is measured as 7µs average, there is no latency data on Random Read operations, and Random Reads are presented in IOPS only, not MB, with the Random measurements presented in the ARK site being at QD32.

If you have any other questions, just let me know, and I will follow up on October 13th just in case.

Regards,

Bruce C.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[BrusC_Intel]

Hello, Rabidus.

I wanted to follow up on this thread to check if you had other questions.

I will follow up again on October 18th before closing it if there is no confirmation about further assistance being required.

Regards,

Bruce C.

Intel Customer Support Technician

[BrusC_Intel]

Hello, Rabidus.

Thank you for marking the thread as resolved.

This topic will be closed and no longer monitored by Intel support, but if any type of assistance from Intel is needed in the future, you can always contact us back.

Best regards,

Bruce C.

Intel Customer Support Technician