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Interesting, before cheap ram disks maybe had a use case, but now motherboards have 2/3 m2's with raid options. Or even jbod ssd's for software style raid. Us
by IronWolve 4y ago
Interesting, before cheap ram disks maybe had a use case, but now motherboards have 2/3 m2's with raid options. Or even jbod ssd's for software style raid.
Uses ddr2 and ram was expensive when it came out, so can see it wasn't super popular. But neat idea.
https://techreport.com/review/16255/acards-ans-9010-serial-ata-ram-disk/ https://techreport.com/review/16255/acards-ans-9010-serial-a...
- bcrl 4y agoThere's still a use-case for them. High performance high reliability persistent messaging is one such use case where SSDs do not have the required endurance. Solace builds their hardware messaging appliances with the Assured Delivery Blade that consists of an FPGA based board with supercap backed DRAM that dumps to flash on power failure and a couple of 10Gbps ports to mirror to another system. The end result is extremely low latency acknowledgement of non-volatile storage of persistent messages with unlimited endurance.
- IronWolve 4y agoWith that being a 5.25, year and brand I was thinking desktop usage. For enterprise, I'm sure theres always a need for some.