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also as ram

Posted Mar 14, 2008 3:33 UTC (Fri) by ccyoung (subscriber, #16340)
In reply to: How to use a terabyte of RAM by daniel
Parent article: How to use a terabyte of RAM

sell ram itself if DDR2 packaging, so this becomes immediately feasible.

http://www.violin-memory.com/products/vimms.html

and, with next gen flash gets rid of power objections.

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also as ram

Posted Mar 15, 2008 19:28 UTC (Sat) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]

"next gen flash gets rid of power objections"

It does and it doesn't.  A box with a heavy continuous write load will eventually end up with
all its "buffer" flash in erase mode, and write throughput will drop down to erase speed.  So
RAM will always be better than flash for high performance transactional setups, but less
demanding loads will be fine with flash.