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I honestly can't imagine having something in my DIMM slots with this bad of latency and throughput. 150 microsecond reads? Doing a full POST would take forever.
by robmccoll 12y ago
I honestly can't imagine having something in my DIMM slots with this bad of latency and throughput. 150 microsecond reads? Doing a full POST would take forever. What OS and software use - case does this serve?
- vidarh 12y agoYou'd put a filesystem on it and mount it as a "ramdisk", with the result that you can cut out expensive RAID controllers and/or PCIe SSDs, and can potentially reduce form factor. E.g. I can get 1U servers with 32 DDR3 slots and 64 cores, but only space for 3x 3.5" drives, or if you double up (but few chassis will then let you use hot swap caddies), 6x 2.5" drives. You could easily fit 256GB RAM and still have 16 slots free for RAID arrays over those DIMMs.