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Cheapest i think, good for those who want these, personally rocking a ssd system, hence no need for these
Intel Optane Memory Series 16GB Pcie Nvme M.2 80mm SSD ($22.35 Shipped with eBay Plus) @ JW Computers on eBay
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Bargain4Days on 28/06/2018 - 16:31 ebay.com.au (349 clicks)
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why do u say that?
will this work on my laptop - http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/computers/satellite/c50… ? It is upgradable to 16GB
But am not sure about the frequency.
Can anyone help please
The answer is no for your laptop.
You need an M.2 drive slot which doesn't exist in your spec's list.This is not Ram, so Frequency doesn't come into this at all :)
Maybe OP shouldn't have called it "16GB Pcie Nvme M.2 80mm RAM" then.
it's not the RAM that you think it is. It's for HDD cache, to access files on you HDD faster. Plus you'll need a motherboard to support Optane Memory.
complete waste of an m.2 slot but hey, if you think 16Gb is worth it in any capacity then spend your money
If I was forced to use a hdd, then caching it is ESSENTIAL. When I'm doing IT support on anyone's computer that has a hdd, I bring a usb and use ReadyBoost. Makes life much less painful.
I guess if I was on a REALLY tight budget then I could understand this…otherwise a small SSD for Windows would be much nicer.
$15 for Click and Collect? No Thanks.
That's why there is eBay Plus in the title. With the 30 day trial you can score dozens of awesome deals.
DOZENS!
Sure…. $15 for shipping or $29 for free shipping subscription ….
Tough call … or not.You missed the part where I said eBay Plus is free for the first month. Means you can pretty much get free shipping with hundreds of sellers. Have you missed the recent eBay deals?
ebay plus has just given sellers an excuse to charge shipping when they didn't previously, and outrageous shipping charges on small items ($19.95 to ship a micro SD card, wtf?) when they already were.
I suspect ebay might have encouraged sellers to start charging for shipping or increase shipping costs just to more or less make it essential for everyone to buy Plus if they don't want prices going up due to shipping.
Deployed a few HP ProDesks with 1TB mechanical HDDs and 16GB Optane last week and was blown away by how good they were. Obviously if you can afford it, all SSD is the way to go but for clients that have big storage requirements on a budget, Optane is brilliant. Ide say typical tasks like boot, shutdown, restart, app launch, etc, was 95% as good as an SSD. Even after big Windows Updates and cold boots it was still super quick. Massive improvements over the old SSD cache drives you found in PCs a few years ago.
I didn't know you can upgrade RAM via PCIE? I currently have 16gb DDR 3 ram, so if I whack this into my PCIE, will it become 32gb?
16gb of ram for $22.35 is cheap as!!!!
This isn't normal RAM (like DDR). This is used to make a HDD feel faster. You need a new motherboard that supports it.
Not that sort of RAM. Think of this as a HDD cache.
M.2…RAM…is a thing. Huh.
Does JW retail price match with their own ebay shop?
It's $28!! on their website
should probably post this handy linus tech tips video explaining what Intel Optane is https://youtu.be/WwH5Q8ZFJvw
Just ordered a Synology which can have M.2 drives added as a fast cache system… I figure these while they won't be utilised for the speed would do 16GB seems like a decent cache amount?
It's extremely unlikely this is going to be compatible.
They were NVME so I thought they would suit but yep some Googling and looks like they are not compatible (mainly driver issues vs type of memory)
https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=136743
I have an i7 6700 with an old 3Tb WD green drive that I think I harvested from an old external drive. Probably a bad mismatch.
I have two m2 slots open. Will I see a speed boost in game loading times with this?
If I upgrade to an SSD boot drive can I still use this with the 3 Tb as a steam drive?
I pretty sure Optane requires gen7 CPU and corresponding support on motherboard.
https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/support/articles/…
Kaby Lake (gen 7 and relatively recent motherboard).
correct.
And it's totally not worth upgrading for.
They made this require Kaby Lake but there is nothing that makes it impossible to do on previous gens. They just wanted to hold it back as a killer app to get Kaby Lake.
You couldve gotten this at $20 just a day ago with the 10% off BUT since nobody cares about this it was overlooked. I was hesitating on buying this during that sale because 16gb doesnt seem enough. Waiting on the 32gb.
If you can afford to, just get a 250GB SATA SSD for ~$100.
such a waste of a m.2 slot
cheapest but probably the worst value deal so far…