Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on August 2, 2022 9:24 am wrote:
> NoSpammer (no.delete@this.spam.com) on August 2, 2022 3:50 am wrote:
> > It's funny how sponsored reviews forget to include the best of competition. Why are the top of the line
> > Samsung SSDs excluded from this comparison? There are also some others with much improved 4K performance.
>
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> Anandtech's audience is enthusiast consumer focused, so they mostly review/benchmark consumer equipment.
> They might occasionally review something like Optane even though it is targeted at the enterprise,
> either to provide a point of comparison for a new technology or because Intel was trying to give
> people the impression it would someday get pricing down to where consumers might buy it.
>
> They aren't going to review all the highest performance SSDs, because their pricing clearly targets them at the
> enterprise market, and while their some of their audience may want to wring the last bit of performance out of
> a CPU and GPU that's only to make their games faster. A souped up SSD isn't going to help their frame rate.

Sometime a more enterprise focused review was posted. Take for example this article:



As you can see, even high-end Memblaze SSDs are not match for Optane.

This other article shows Samsung's ZET as quite competitive, still 2X slower than Optane:



Moreover Samsung Z-NAND drives lack a product refresh, so am I not sure about their future availability.

Surely Optane was not a panacea at all, but was an interesting product and I am sorry to see it gone.

Regards.