There is this tech called intel optane. It is a fast memory storage ment to be used in RAID with an HDD. In that setup, it serves for caching, making slow HDD feel fast. It is about 10 years old; since abandoned because NVMe SSDs caught up.
I have this in my old-ish gaming computer which I plan to repurpose. I am thinking of experimenting local LLMs on the nvidia graphics card, or other stuff. The point is to learn.
I could also use the machine for other home lab/server things. I am thinking about putting btc node on it, monero etc. This is where optane comes to play. Because full nodes read and write to the disk all the time, I maybe able to releave some of it with a proper optane setup. Obviously not with HDD, but with my 1TB SATA SSD instead. Node may be able to sync faster with it, or at least save some read/write cycles.
Would anyone be interested in reading about results of this kind of experiment? I do not know, maybe this idea is not worth much.
I have this in my old-ish gaming computer which I plan to repurpose. I am thinking of experimenting local LLMs on the nvidia graphics card, or other stuff. The point is to learn.
I could also use the machine for other home lab/server things. I am thinking about putting btc node on it, monero etc. This is where optane comes to play. Because full nodes read and write to the disk all the time, I maybe able to releave some of it with a proper optane setup. Obviously not with HDD, but with my 1TB SATA SSD instead. Node may be able to sync faster with it, or at least save some read/write cycles.
Would anyone be interested in reading about results of this kind of experiment? I do not know, maybe this idea is not worth much.
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