Hey IT guys and gals, don't get too excited

[dafier]

http://www.cnet.com/news/intel-and-micron-debut-3d-xpoint-storage-technology-thats-1000-times-faster-than-existing-drives/

/drool

[sacman08]

They forgot to mention that will be 1000x more expensive.

[LulzSect]

http://33.media.tumblr.com/ff66a927ce9b9fd6e5a02be1110bd633/tumblr_inline_nb1t4fEnqT1rnvwt1.gif

[Trophy Scars]

They forgot to mention that will be 1000x more expensive.

[Artaenc]

They forgot to mention that will be 1000x more expensive.

$1,000 per TB on initial release most likely and probably need PCIe4.0 motherboards with skylake minimum.

[Sorn]

I saw an article about the development of this tech a year or so ago! Stackable is great. Soon we'll make a real tesseract to store all our cat videos on.

Not excited about the initial pricing of it, though. I expect big businesses will eventually buy enough of it that it'll drop later on, but it'll be a while before the regular consumer can really afford it.