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It would have sufficed to provide just enough battery or capacitor to copy from regular RAM to non-volatile storage in case of a power drop. For reliability, yo

by ncmncm 5y ago

It would have sufficed to provide just enough battery or capacitor to copy from regular RAM to non-volatile storage in case of a power drop. For reliability, you just need to ensure stuff is charged up again, on startup, before resuming.

wmf 5y ago
Half the point of NVM was to be cheaper than DRAM, not more expensive.
- ncmncm 5y ago
  The point of NVM is to be NV. A few GB of DRAM for cache and a super-capacitor would not increase cost notably, but would eliminate any performance impact, and also give a more reliable recovery.