MEMPEK1J032GA01 Optane M10 Series 32 GB M.2 80 mm Memory Module - Black

I'd been meaning to give AMD's StoreMI software a try and wanted to play with a cheap Optane module in order to do so. I ordered the 16GB model to pair with my 120GB KingDian SSD on my Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra Gaming motherboard, popped it in the NVME slot and set up StoreMi in Windows 10 Professional. At this point, both drives were fused into a single C: drive in Windows and I left StoreMI software to learn my application launch habits to enhance my most used applications. You can see the increase in read speeds on the CrystalDiskMark screenshots throughout vs the SATA drive on its own but, some of the write speeds were lower due to the lesser write speeds of the Optane unit vs the KingDian. On top of the enhanced reads of the Optane unit alone, you can also allocate 2GB of your system RAM to further increase performance which is shown on the third screenshot. Overall, boot times are quicker, application load times are even faster and the system seems as fluid and responsive as ever. Pleased with the result and no regrets in experimenting. I can imagine things are even better when an Optane unit is paired with a standard hard drive. For those who want to utlilise an unused NVME slot and to speed up an existing drive, this is worth considering.

I installed this SSD into my Dell inspiron 15 5570, which uses an i5 8250u and a 2tb hard drive. The processor is important, as you can only use these intel optane accelerators with a 7th gen intel core processor onwards. Fortunately, mine is an 8th gen processor and the laptop had a spare m.2 port, this is not something to expect on all laptops however. After taking apart and installing the SSD (the hardest part, required spudgers/old credit cards to pop open the plastic shell) the SSD required installing the intel optane memory user interface, so as to enable it, otherwise it cannot be used to its full extent. Upon installing the software, the computer required several restarts to enable the SSD,but once it was working, it reduced boot times considerably, and made browsing and launching programs considerably quicker. It went from a few minutes to be booted up, logged in and opened chrome, to around a minute maximum. I would heavily recommend this for anyone who has a laptop or PC that can support it and doesn't want to buy an expensive NVME SSD and wants lots of storage space that you get with a mechanical hard drive.

if you have a slow drive, or any drive that you want to speed up this is great. Be aware that you cannot accelerate multiple drives. And you cannot have 2 of these modules working. So you can only accelerate one drive with one of these modules and that is it. Even if you have multiple M.2 slots, only one module will work. they should definitely improve this, and make it work with more drives, and support more intel optane modules. To activate it is very simple, but if you run into trouble just contact the intel support, I contacted them and they solved the problem, quick and easy, and i got a follow up email the day after that to check if everything was working and if i had any more doubts or questions.

This was very close to being a 1-star review, in fact I'd started writing it a couple of days ago. Intel didn't advertise that the module would only speed up the boot drive of a system, rendering it pretty useless to a large proportion of potential users. The normal use case for such a device would be in a system with a small SSD boot drive and a large mechanical secondary drive which could do with the acceleration. But as of today they finally released v16 of the Optane/RST drives enabling secondary drive acceleration. In my particular build, it makes quite a bit of difference. Whilst the write speed is pretty much as it was, the read speed has increased from 120MB/s to around 900MB/s. Games load almost instantly (after they've made it into the cache). Be aware though that this semi-permanently pairs with one of your drives and if either the device or drive goes, you lose your data. I don't foresee this being a particular problem though as the device montiors itself for issues and will warn if anything untoward is happening, giving you a chance to disable it. Overall, a very nice bit of kit.

I have come to realise that an Optane accelerated system is similar to running RAID 0 - it increases the chances for something to go wrong. 98% of the time it is great. Its a cheap way to dramatically accelerate your system. However Optane has failed me twice now. Once after a power-cut my PC would not reboot because Optane got corrupted when the power went down. Windows Recovery disk was no help with Optane and I had to reinstall Windows from scratch. The other time, the Optane software stopped working after a Windows feature update, I had to disable WIn Fast Boot, then disable and re-enable Optane (this is not a quick thing to do). I expect this software reliability will get better if Optane popularity increases, but right now I would not recommend it to someone not technically confident - an SSD may be a better, if more expensive option.

Best from the rest I paired it with my 250 Samsung evo and believe me my PC is flying. Super fast boot and usage very easy to setup and use. And it was delivered within 2 weeks form the US. Thanks Amazon and Intel

Excelente produto qualidade Intel. Não consegui configurar tive de levar em uma assistência! Mas ficou melhor , mais rápido apesar de que já tenho SSD INSTALADO. RECOMENDO.

Fiquei muito satisfeito com o desempenho do computador após colocar esse módulo Optane. Meio chato de configurar mas ficou excelente.

Je ne regrette pas de l'avoir acheté (32 euro) en reconditionner à l'époque couplé avec un 2 TO, la vitesse est impressionnante. J'ai mis mes jeux dessus, c'est bête que cette technologie a été abandonné, si vous avez de la chance essayé d'en trouver un à pas cher.

Literalmente, ha convertido mi hdd de 1tb en un ssd de 1tb. No hay mucho más que explicar, simplemente funciona y lo hace muy bien, el ordenador inicia en 10-15 segundos (antes me tardaba un par de minutos en cargar todo el escritorio) y los programas cargan enseguida. Lo único en mi caso fue que tuve que actualizar bios y activar el modulo de memoria desde la bios, pero depende de cada caso y además no es dificil de hacer.