Toby DiPasquale on 5 Sep 2007 22:33:06 -0000 |
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:55:24PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > 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. The Sun E10K and E15K servers allow this. You can hot-swap disks, RAM, CPUs, even entire motherboards and the system does not go down (it degrades, but does not go down). They are, of course, really, really expensive, however. -- Toby DiPasquale ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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