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    Intel Disputes CPU Bug Claims

    Intel's statement is an outright, purposeful deception. They brought up the spectre of data modification and completely avoided mentioning the actual bug, which is the ability to read the contents of kernel memory, when not a single person was talking about data modification and everyone was...
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    Intel 3D XPoint Optane SSD DC P4800X Performance Preview

    For the consumer space, people would be better served with something like the Samsung 951 or 960 EVO or 960 PRO. These devices have a read latency of around 60-70uS and very high sequential bandwidths at QD1 (in excess of 1 GByte/sec) due to the controller having a sequential optimization in...
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    Intel 3D XPoint Optane SSD DC P4800X Performance Preview

    QD > 1 actually isn't rare. Any sequential file access (say, from linux or windows or MacOs or whatever) is actually issuing 4-8 read-ahead I/Os in parallel. So the operating system is, in fact, going to be running the device at QD4 or higher with standard programs, IF those programs try to...