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Review on πŸš€ Enhance Performance with Intel Optane Memory M10 16GB PCIe M.2 80mm by Ian Iknokinok

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Ticket to technology hell

If you like pain, buy an Intel Optane module for your laptop! Only Intel could get away with tormenting its customers like this. I bought a 16GB module which is easy to install and struggled to get around the reliability limitations of this product for 3 months mostly without success. Supporting software limitations, confusing and conflicting recommendations, and Intel updates. Downloads posted on their website and the associated blue screen of death and boot failure along with corrupted operating systems and hard drives have become part of Optane-Accelerated' everyday life! ZERO MAINTENANCE by Intel is an added feature of this luck-killing product! The only positive is that when I got it working properly after Intel finally posted a working driver on their support site 3 months after I bought their 16GB Optane module, my internal hard drive was rated at 7200 RPM, it started reading up to 920MB/s at lightning speed. writes up to 160mb / s - not everything is so bad. BUT I would be much better off just buying a real SSD and replacing my mechanical drive entirely. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Pros
  • Good product for the price
Cons
  • Expensive insurance