| Art Alexion on 6 Sep 2007 18:18:19 -0000 |
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On Thursday 06 September 2007 13:49:21 Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:15:19PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > 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." > > Well, if you want to replace RAM, you've got to remove the old chip > before you put in the new one... I am sorry that I am not communicating well. I was referring to removing RAM as in "My 1 gb RAM is too much. I will remove 512k. That should make things better." as opposed to "Uh-oh, one of my RAM modules doesn't seem to be recognized any more; let me remove it to the trash can and replace it with a shiny new one." Hot swappable RAM seems to address the first scenario. Shutting down, opening the case and replacing or upgrading a module seems to address the second scenario. My question was addressed to the first scenario. Why would anyone who has added/increased RAM wish to remove/decrease RAM? Attachment:
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