Akitio has announced a new addition to
their range of Node Lite PCIe boxes with the introduction of a Special Edition
Node Lite with Intel Optane 905P SSD, which will be available to preorder
during June 2018, although no pricing has been announced as yet. The Intel
Optane 905P SSD is different from NAND flash memory, and offers a hybrid
between DRAM and typical storage memory.
By connecting the Intel Optane drive inside the
Akitio Node Lite via Thunderbolt 3, we are able to fully utilize the
Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth to achieve incredibly fast performance of up to
2200MB/s in both read and write. Unlike NAND flash based solid state drive
(SSD) that provide fast performance in only large sized random read and write
operations, the Optane drive provides the same “phenomenal speeds” in both
large and small file transfers.
