Intel Optane for Nucleus!?

[anon26308295]

Er möchte gerne die intern verbaute WD M2 gegen eine Intel Optane ersetzten, ist das möglich?
Hi there, I hope everything is fine with you all.
I have a Nucleus dealer, he received the following question:
Can be the WD M2 replaced with an Intel Optane?

Would be fine to get the answer soon. Maybe also, why it is or is not necessary
Best
Armin

[ged_hickman1]

Save your money.

Intel Optane desirable for ROCK?

There is no real benefit to using an Optane SSD for Roon vs any other SSD. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan on Optane and have it in several of my workstations. But not in my Roon server.) Optane is lower latency, yes. But this basically doesn’t matter on a Roon system. The OS block cache will pretty much have all of Roon in RAM anyway (and by this, I also mean the active/“hot” parts of the Roon database), so you’re doing very little I/O to the SSD. Roon itself uses barely 1GB of RAM, s…

[wizardofoz (Mr Fix It aka The Wiz)]

Also not sure if it is doable the os would need to be reinstalled and I think that’s not doable as nucleus. Maybe it would work as rock or maybe rock can be nucleus on the right detected hardware.

But as ged said save your money