Caching is back. Our first in-house hands-on with Optane comes in the form of Intel's Optane Memory modules. Optane Memory is a low cost - small capacity (16 or 32GB) PCIe Gen3x2 Single sided 3D XPoint-based M.2 x 2280 caching SSD designed to accelerate high-capacity SATA-based storage. The Intel Optane Memory module is a system accelerator that learns and adjusts to your computing tasks - greatly enhancing the user experience by accelerating frequent tasks such as booting your PC, launching programs and web browsers.
