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Isn't it more simple to buy a MB with 16 RAM slots? And more performant?

• AnthonBerg 4y ago
  It’s interesting to consider the difference. The price grows when going to server/workstation motherboards / CPUs. And: What if you already have a 16-slot motherboard fully populated with RAM? You can add a whole another computer with 16 more slots, but that’s quite a bit of iron, and: How best to connect the two? Does there exist an interlink that shunts data between two computers at full PCIe 4.0 x4 speed? Or x8? And how to control processing on the second computer? I’m sure there are bigger motherboards yet, but afaik it always comes with further components – say, more physical CPU sockets that need to be populated? There are probably situations where this hardware is the simple way of doing a job. Also: If the current motherboard already has a unused PCI slot, then it’s kiiiiind of a free return on investment to use that bandwidth. By putting the existing I/O controller to use.
• davidy123 4y ago
  This board has a battery, so the memory is retained for up to a year between reboots. So you can copy your data to it once, and it's super fast. Though, using ordinary RAM and initializing it before use, copying say 128GB is only going to take a few seconds these days.
  • DeathArrow 4y ago
    The point was more in line of RAM bus being faster than PCIe.
• simplotek 4y ago
  > Isn't it more simple to buy a MB with 16 RAM slots? A Why do you think it's a good idea to assemble a whole new computer just because you want more storage?
• numpad0 4y ago
  Often those require server RAMs.