Re: Expand VM

From: Herman Oosthuysen (Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 12:58:27 EST


There is a good reason for that: Power consumption.

A large SDRAM disk would require refresh logic etc. So you will end up
with something closely resembling bad notebook PC.

John Bradford wrote:
>
> I've seen loads of solid state devices based on flash memory, but few
> that are based on battery backed DRAM :-(.
>

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