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I thought I could throw away my DRAM and SSD, but it looks like for now it's just another cache level.
by bushin 10y ago
I thought I could throw away my DRAM and SSD, but it looks like for now it's just another cache level.
- eightysixfour 10y agoI think it will be a bit different once they start selling DIMMs. I'm looking forward to seeing how that works out.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoIt seems like that could be pretty useful in a laptop, if your RAM was nonvolatile, wake from sleep would be truly instantaneous, you'd think (and it would survive your battery dying).
- baq 10y agoyou still need to reinitialize devices; only RAM survives. it'd be no faster than current wake from suspend, but it'd be hibernation.
- andrewmcwatters 10y agoThis is also what I thought they were marketing. The day this happens, it'll be big.
- readams 10y agoThey're a long way from realizing the full potential of the technology. Right now they're hugely limited by the interconnect. Also, if they reach some of the goals they've been talking about, it might need differently-designed operating systems to really work.
- snuxoll 10y agoI mean, Single-Level-Storage is hardly a new concept - I don't think we need entirely new operating systems to gain benefits, but for more applications and enabling technologies to be designed around it. LMDB, for example, would be a great fit with Optane already. Really, anything that uses mmap() is.