Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:46:29PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:51:59 Brent Saner 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.
> 
> While this sounds cool, it also seems an expensive and inefficient way to add 
> RAM.  With "hot-pluggable" RAM, I am trying to envision a reason I'd want 
> to /remove/ RAM.  So if I'm adding it permanently, why not just use RAM 
> modules instead?

Two reasons right off the top of my head:

1) The individual RAM chip died.
2) You want to remove it and replace it with a bigger RAM chip.

Walt

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