Intel Mem Drive Tech SW for Intel Optane SSD P4800X 375GB Optane

Intel Memory Drive Technology transparently integrates Intel Optane SSDs into the memory subsystem.

Intel Memory Drive Technology can revolutionize your data center memory architecture. When combined with Intel Optane SSDs, Intel Memory Drive Technology transparently integrates the drive into the memory subsystem and makes it appear like DRAM to the operating system and applications. This can increase memory capacity beyond DRAM limitations, with no change required to the OS or applications.

Intel Memory Drive Technology is highly beneficial in two primary IT scenarios:

• Displace a portion of more expensive DRAM to reduce overall memory cost

• Grow the memory pool beyond DRAM capacities to access or enable much larger memory datasets

Displace Costly DRAM for More Affordable Memory

Intel Memory Drive Technology enables data centers to deliver more affordable memory pools by displacing a portion of higher cost, higher power DRAM. By pairing a reduced amount of DRAM and replacing that capacity with the high-performing non-volatile memory of the Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X, data centers can more cost-effectively execute memory-intensive workloads with much lower DRAM capacity installed, saving on both hardware procurement and operations cost.

Extend Memory for a Bigger Memory Footprint

Intel Memory Drive Technology enables data centers to grow the memory footprint beyond DRAM-only capacity. Together, DRAM and Intel Optane SSDs with Intel Memory Drive Technology emulate a single volatile memory pool. Additionally, Intel Memory Drive Technology intelligently determines where data should be located within the pool to maximize speed, enabling servers to deliver performance across many workloads—even when DRAM is only supplying one-third to one-eighth of the memory pool capacity.

Key Benefits

• Enables delivery of more affordable memory pools

• Maximizes server CPU performance across many workloads

• Increases memory capacity beyond DRAM limitations to emulate single memory pool

• Extends system memory transparently by integrating Intel SSD into the memory subsystem