Re: Expand VM

Herman Oosthuysen (Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com)
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:58:27 -0700


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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