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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 2 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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w10-1 ◴[12 Oct 25 05:50 UTC] No.45555619[source]▶
Optane persistent memory had a fascinating value proposition: stop converting data structures for database storage and just persist the data directly. No more booting or application launch or data load: just pick up where you left off. Died because it was too expensive, but probably long after it should have.

VM's persist memory snapshots (as do Apple's containers, for macOS at least), so there's still room for something like that workflow.

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Gud ◴[12 Oct 25 06:59 UTC] No.45555929[source]▶
1+ for 3dxpoint.

The technology took decades to mature, but the business people didn’t have the patience to let the world catch up to this revolutionary technology.

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1. dlcarrier ◴[12 Oct 25 07:53 UTC] No.45556220[source]▶
The world had already caught up. By the time it was released, flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency, to the point that the difference want with the cost.
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2. Havoc ◴[12 Oct 25 09:13 UTC] No.45556703[source]▶
>flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency

Kinda, but for small writes it's still nowhere near.

Samsung 990 Pro - IOPS 4KQD1 113 MBytes/Sec

P4800X optane - IOPS 4KQD1 206 MBytes/Sec

And that's a device 5 years newer and on a faster pcie generation.

It disappeared because the market that values above attribute is too small and its hard to market because at first glance they look about the same on a lot of metrics as you say