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No dual boot with Intel Optane
10 Sep 2018
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Intel Optane is a great caching solution for HDDs. It gives you huge disk space that is almost as fast as a SATA SSD, with a much longer lifespan than SSDs have. Some stores sell it in a cheap bundle with a CPU and/or a motherboard.
But it works only on Windows
No dual boot! It’s simply not supported, not even with completely separate drives!
Workaround
For a long time I used Optane with two drives and two OSes. To switch the OS, every time I had to change a BIOS setting and reboot before I could choose the other drive. A single bootloader for both OSes probably won’t work for long either.
You have been warned.
Still, Optane might be a good choice for a heavy-duty server, since it wears out so slowly.
PS: AMD’s caching solution has worked with Linux since the Ryzen 2 release.
Waldemar Wosiński - Scala & Big Data engineer, father and motorcyclist ;)