IntelOptane Memory M10 16 GB PCIe M.2 80mm

Es un increible producto, cambio el comportamiento del disco duro ( Me refiero a los discos duros de platos los de baja velocidad), acelera la carga de informacion del disco duro, hizo que mi disco duro de baja velocidad se comporta mejor que un SSD , optane es un intermediario entre el disco duro o SSD y almacena los ulitmos 16GB utilizados,(esta accion la hace demanera desatendida, sin que debamos hacer nada, lo hace completamente debajo del sistema) Debes de leer la guia de como se configura e instalar el software, que se descarga en la pagina de intel, no debes usarlo como disco duro, cuando el sistema optane esta correctamente instalado, no es visible como unidad de disco/almacenamiento, simplemente no se ve, algo super importante es que debes hacer ingresar a la BIOS de tu equipo y cambiar la configuracion de tu administrador de disco duro a tipo RAID, si no sabes que es RAID es simplemente dividir la carga de informacion en dos o mas discos de almacenamiento y esto permite acceder a ambos discos como si fuese uno solo, lo que hace esto es dividir toda informacion , pero en realidad preriza la informacion al disco SSD de optane y despues cuando esta ya no es requerida se entrega lentamente al disco duro que es mas lento , pero al hacer la lectura es como si el optane se quedara con una copia, de la primera lectura del disco duro y cualquier consulta de los ultimos 16 GB utilizados se mantienen el el SSD entregando la informacion realmente rapido, si tu equipo tiene mas de 8GB de te recomentaria comprar mejor el optane de 32GB ya que esto significa que tu equipo utilizara mas memoria de lo que el optane puede mantener de los archivos recientes. PRECAUCION si tienes la funcion de hibernar en uso, cada vez que mandes a hibernar el equipo, el sistema guardara la informacion de la RAM en el disco duro, pero esto hara que los ulitmos 16 GB de archivos recientemente utilizados, se pierdan, optante funciona muy bien, repite si las actividades que realizas, no utilizan una carga demandante de informacion del disco duro no supera los 16 GB, yo lo veo un producto maravilloso, siempre y cuando tu actividades en el equipo no supere 16 GB de lectura de archivos, es ideal para juegos, diseño, y ingenieria, pero no para edicion de video, por que por lo general la edicon de video utiliza mucho disco duro, para eso mejor usa el tamaño adecuado de disco duro como la version de 32 GB

A cheap simple upgrade to my Dell mini PC that had an open M.2 slot. These Optane modules only work with certain CPUs and motherboards, so check your computer to make sure it will be recognized by the BIOS and the OS. You also have to use the Intel Optane driver package which can be finicky to install. I had to install and reinstall a couple of times before the software recognized the Optane. I also had to go into the BIOS and select the correct HDD settings for Optane (it's kind of like a RAID setup, but not). Once configured, everything seems to be working great. There's no noticeable difference in PC performance so the gains are questionable. But for less than $20 it's a fun PC hardware upgrade.

Used this on the front end of my home TrueNAS system. Didn't need the potential write speed increase, but liked the bufferd/write capabilities, and perhaps a bit more resilience on a power outage. Had a slot for it on my new system, and cheap enough for a bit of potential extra insurance.

I'm using a pair of these small but fast SSDs as cache drives for my Synology NAS. The Synology OS uses one for write caching and one for read caching. This makes transferring lots of small files much faster than before. While these drives are not on Synology's official compatibility list, I've heard from other Synology users who have also had success with these drives. At their current price, it is worth it!Edit: Upon update to the latest Synology software, one of the cache drives was either unsupported or died. This caused a major issue that required a complete reinstall of the Synology software on my NAS. Fortunately, this did not lose any of my data but did require that I re-install all my packages and re-configure everything. It could have been worse.

I should have done my homework: the Optane Memory is mainly used to accelerate your HDD and make it almost as fast as a SSD. The problem is that my primary drive is already a SSD and I was thinking that I could accelerate my HDD as a secondary drive. No, you can't do this! The Optane Memory Module, on top of all technical requirements (Windows 10 + Optane Ready MOBO + 7th generation 64 bits Processors) also requires that the drive to be accelerated has to be the primary drive in which the Windows is installed.Fine, my fault here, I should have done my homework in reading carefully Intel page about the Optane Memory Module (go to the FAQ). Although it can accelerate a SSD the gain is not high enough to justify its price. If I knew that already, I would have chosen to buy a bigger SSD rather then spend money on the Optane.Nevertheless, despite all the frustration (once again, I think that was 80% my fault), what really makes this a three star review is the installation process: while reading Intel's website and watching their tutorials makes you think it's a "plug & play" process, it is not! Already have your Windows up and running? 99% chance that you'll need to format your PC, so be prepare to back up everything you have.There are several guidelines that you need to follow: your disk should be formates as GPT (MBR is not allowed), you need to have at least 5MB of non-allocated memory in your disk as part of the installation. Oh, and your BIOS should probably be updated and customised with a few tweaks to properly access the Optane Module. And how do you know that? Google + Youtube (users video, the Intel one doesn't give you much information). On top of all that you will need a lot, really, a lot, seriously, a looooot of patience.Bottom of line: seems that Intel came up with a good idea for on budget people who doesn't want to spend a lot of money in bigger SSDs, but rather accelerate their HDD. That's awesome, but still, the lack of clear information of how the memory can be used (go to the FAQ before buying it) and also the misleading "simple installation" idea are frustrating. Once you get pass this obstacles, the equipment does what it should do: accelerate you HDD or your SSD (barely perceptible for the last one).