[Cialug] SSD in a DIMM

Scott Yates Scott at yatesframe.com
Mon Jan 5 17:05:57 CST 2015


Can't wait for the day I can get 10TB at that speed and form factor for
something approaching a reasonable price.

I, for one, welcome our solid state overlords!  8)

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> I'd rather use a DIMM slot for RAM.  For the "next thing" in high
> speed storage see Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).  Basically it's
> SSD without the limitations of SATA and can take advantage of PCIe's
> full bandwidth.  Plus it's an industry-wide standard - drivers are
> already in the mainline Linux kernel and I'm sure for Windows and Mac
> as well.  See here for Intel's offering:
>
>
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/intel-ssd-dc-family-for-pcie.html
>
> Seems to be even faster than Sandisk's offering.  I'm sure for mucho
> dinero though.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
> >
> > That seems like an odd idea.
> >
> > "Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor
> > " is not actually an improvement.  SSD's are somewhere around an order of
> > magnitude slower than ram if I remember correctly.
> >
> > Maybe it is just a form factor issue?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/
> >>
> >> Yeah, okay, wouldn't mind one of those...  Maybe if I save my pennies
> for
> > a
> >> while.  Like, years.  =)
> >>
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