Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:55:24 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.

Those are reasons for /replacing/ RAM, but I read this hot-plugging as adding 
and /removing/ RAM as in: "I think I need an extra GB of RAM to encode this 
video. ... OK, done encoding.  I'll unplug it and go back to 512k."

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