Intel reveals their sped up M15 series of Optane storage drives

Intel’s Optane system accelerations have received a significant speed upgrade, bringing the device into the realms of PCIe 3.0 x4 performance, differentiating the device from Intel’s existing PCIe x2 variants. 

These updated Optane drives make up the M15 series, which will replace Intel’s existing M10 series of system accelerators, shipping in the same 16GB, 32GB and 64GB variants.  

Intel’s Optane M1x series of system accelerators are designed to speed up systems using HDD or SATA-based SSD storage by caching data onto the Optane accelerator’s memory, which can be used later to reduce boot times and applications load times. This is why Intel refers to these small Optane M-series drives as system accelerators. 

In terms of both latency and performance, Intel’s new M15 series of system accelerations offer across the board improvements, offering players faster read speeds, enhanced write speeds and boosted random performance. With the M15 series, Intel’s Optane accelerators have been improved in every tangible way. These changes will allow new Optane enhanced systems to feel more responsive. 
 

Intel has confirmed that their new M15 Optane series system accelerators will release in mid-Q3 2019. 

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