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EVILMAN57

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November 27th, 2018 19:00

Does dell inspiron 5680 support intel optane memory?

I was wondering if I could do this or if I should just through down the money to get an ssd.

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Posted November 28th, 2018 04:00
Yes it does support Intel Optane. The following forum post will help out.

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Little-confused-between-Optane-Memory-plus-HD-vs-SSD-plus-HD/td-p/6055121

I am not a Dell employee...I am forum volunteer

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Posted November 28th, 2018 05:00
While Optane is supported, bear in mind that it's just an accelerated hard drive -- in other words, a fractional substitute for a solid state drive.

You're better off with a native SSD for the OS, and a hard drive for storage - you'll get many times the level of performance from this setup as you will from an Optane cache.