What Is Intel Optane Memory? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin there are a lot

of important things to consider when

buying a new computer but I've got a

question for you what's the most

important one when it comes to

responsiveness is it having an awesome

processor ton of memory maybe a huge

screen or is it your lowly hard drive

actually yeah that is exactly what it is

so the standard hard drive that you'll

find and a lot of computers today is a

bottleneck and almost every single thing

that you do Oh me not every single thing

but you know loading programs or booting

windows or I don't know loading up

pictures of Ken these are all things

that are much much slower on a

mechanical hard drive and that my

friends is where Intel obtained memory

comes in we're awesome enough to sponsor

this video so we can answer a very

simple question what exactly is obtain

memory take this dell inspiron i have

here on the surface it looks pretty

similar to a lot of other laptops but

thanks to improvements in processing

power specifically with the 8th gen core

processors you can do a lot more work a

lot more efficiently than you used to be

able to do on a system like this and yet

grandpa hard drive is keeping this down

I'm gonna say grandpa hard drive here I

like it if you've got a big budget by

all means go for a full SSD it'll

definitely give you the speed but the

issue is cost and if you need anything

more than say a couple hundred gigs of

space things get pricey very very

quickly especially when you're spending

less than $1000 on a system it can be

really tempting to go for flashy options

like more RAM but the thing is it won't

really make a big difference in

day-to-day use for most people sure if

you're one of those people who have a

hundred tabs open and Chrome all the

time then you probably do need more RAM

and maybe to reevaluate your life

decisions but the best way to think

about RAM versus our hard drive is like

this how many more RAM will allow you to

have more things open at once but having

a faster Drive will mean that all those

things will load much more quickly

that's where obtain memory comes in now

the important thing to know is that this

is not a replacement for a hard drive

it's an addition to it so the way the

octane memory works is that when you're

using your computer normally there's an

algorithm that runs in the background

that's constantly analyzing which files

you're pulling from the hard drive the

ones that you're pulling most such as

windows or your programs or whatever the

case is will then be cached to the

optimal which will massively speed

things up without hurting your capacity

there are a few things to understand

about how all this works and the first

thing is the actual octane module itself

one of the key

is capacity so with the standard SSD

you're usually getting at least 256 gigs

of space however an octane module only

needs to be 16 or 32 gigabyte depending

on which one you pick up and that is

because it's sharing the space with your

standard hard drive which can be a

terabyte or 2 terabytes or 14 terabytes

in the case of our ultimate gaming PC

this means a few things first of all it

dramatically cuts down on the price per

gigabyte which is a big deal regardless

of whether you're building an

over-the-top gaming PC or buying a thin

and light laptop secondly it means that

you still have the mechanical hard drive

and all the capacity that goes with it

it really is the best of both worlds you

have the capacity of a large hard drive

but with the responsiveness and speed of

an SSD know it's been a perfect right

out of the box

octane memory does need a little bit of

time to process and analyze all the

different programs apps and files that

you use on a regular basis but the idea

is that octane is going to make your

computer faster over time as it's more

and more well optimized versus well

basically every other computer ever

which gets slower and slower with the

inevitable march of time inevitable

March inevitable march of time this all

sounds great in theory but how does it

actually work to demo I have a couple

devices starting with by far the most

common method of using octane memory a

laptop such as this HP Pavilion x360

this is a well rounded system with a

core i7 12 gigs of RAM dedicated AMD

graphics and a one terabyte hard drive

that is backed up by a 16 gigabyte

octane module it works exactly like any

other Windows system want to load up

Chrome BAM it's there how about jumping

into a quick game of pub G it's a lot

faster than a traditional mechanical

hard drive on the other hand we have a

full-on gaming PC which has a whopping

14 terabyte hard drive which is

accelerated with Intel obtained MIG this

is a very extreme way of using obtain

but the point stands we've already done

a full video in this PC which you guys

can check out but the way it works is

that we're using a 32 gigabyte intel

obtained module paired with our huge

Steam library to get some seriously fast

speeds even though we have 14 terabytes

of storage the best part is you don't

have to do anything different as far as

Windows is concerned I have a one

terabyte hard drive inside my HP however

what's going on in the background is

that octane memory is speeding up

everything without me having to do a

thing now of course this isn't for

everyone if you're buying a high-end

workstation for example you probably

have the budget for a huge SSD for a lot

of people though this is a really nice

middle ground between a super high-end

system and a budget option with a

glittery slow hard drive whether you

want to build a new game PC or buy that

new laptop if I can communicate anything

this video it's this if you're getting a

new system don't rely on just mechanical

hard drive there are just better options

out there including Intel obtain memory