Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

"....as long as you have some other, master processor to keep track of things while you swap the slaves out and in..... 
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like..RAIDed procs, in theory? ;)
oh my sweet sally, i think we're on to something here. one processor goes bad, you just yoink it out and replace it while the other one takes over...

in order to have USB ram (and this was what i was trying to say before), you would need a motherboard that channels the signal from the USB directly into the RAM channel- and that can possibly get dangerous if you plug a non-"RAM USB" device in the port. 


and i knew about hotswap pci, very cool thing. :) even got to play around with it a bit; fun stuff. occasional bug here and there, but it's not a very developed tech yet.

haha, one of my friends has a saying: "EVERYTHING is hotswappable as long as nobody's looking." hehe

On 9/4/07, Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com> wrote:

On 9/4/07, Brent Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:

what would be nice in the future is to see consumer-level mobos with hotpluggable RAM, maybe even externally. that'd solve this entire problem.

why stop there?
i think if every single thing could be hotswappable (i give that technology about another 5-7 years to show up),

hotswappable PCI has existed for many many years.  It doesn't get used in the commercial desktop market because, um, probably cost.  There's a good deal of extra engineering, testing and parts that go into a board that can be inserted in a hot system.  Were I a manufacturer, I wouldn't be too interested in that extra effort and cost while I was competeing in a commodity market.  As a consumer, I wouldn't be interested in paying a few extra $$ for this feature either. Granted, I'm not working in a server room/farm, but I'm going to have to bring that system down regardless.
Aside from CPUs and RAM, what currently isn't available from USB?

I will say this about USB flash drives and ReadyBoost : it's performance boost (probably) isn't so great because of the flash device.....but why does it need to be flash if I'm going to use it for this purpose?  Where are the USB RAM drives?

it'd be awesome. oh, bad processor? swap a new one in!

it'd be mind-boggling as to how that'd WORK, though...

....as long as you have some other, master processor to keep track of things while you swap the slaves out and in.....

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