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> The DIMMs were expensive and didn't have broad compatibility. They should have made them in a regular DDR3/4/5 format and half the cost of main memory, or 2x
by Dunedan 4y ago
> The DIMMs were expensive and didn't have broad compatibility. They should have made them in a regular DDR3/4/5 format and half the cost of main memory, or 2x to 4x the density for the same price.
Were the prices intentionally high or was that just because they couldn't compete with the economies of scale of DRAM manufacturers?
- mort96 4y agoThe prices were low if you view them as RAM, the densities were crazy. The prices were extremely high if you view them as a small cache SSD in front of your spinning rust, which was how they were marketed and sold.