Optane on consumer laptops has been a huge pain to deal with. It has lead to so many very frustrating moments where I have to explain that their computer actually has two drives but they are seen as one. I have also been running into "fun" moments in trying to get data off a Optane+NVMe SSD that Bitlocker was also on. Non-Optane drives pop-up a dialog box that allows the owner's recovery key to be entered and then unlock the drive to get data. Optane+NVMe drives will only show up in Disk Management, but will also claim to be dramatically larger than they really are (a 32GB+512GB one might show up as being like 2TB protected). So even if I have the Bitlocker key, it doesn't matter because unless the unit it came out of boots the drive won't show data anywhere else. Though I am more than willing to hear any methods for getting around this issue. If we can get NVMe drives as fast as Optane, or just make large Optane only main drives. But I am guessing cost is the main thing stopping that for consumer level stuff?
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Did you try the Linux implementation of Bitlocker to unlock those SSDs?
That is so sad 😩 The current computer architecture really needs some innovation, and Optane was a step in the right direction…
However, PCIe 4.0 SSDs are pretty fast. We also have GDDR6, HBM2 and other innovations in the "fast flash" category. So I wouldn't say the end of Optane is the end of the world…