Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:42:15 -0700 | From | Herman Oosthuysen <> | Subject | Re: Expand VM |
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The trouble is that you will spend so much money on the power supply, that the product won't make economic sense. It would be better to just use a general purpose PC mother board, PSU and a UPS, since then, you get tremendous economy of scale.
John Bradford wrote: >>>I've seen loads of solid state devices based on flash memory, but few >>>that are based on battery backed DRAM :-(. > > >>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. > > > I suppose it makes sense for portable devices, but would it really be > that bad for desktop/server use? I was only thinking of about a 24 > hour battery backup time - to keep the contents overnight, for > example. > > John. >
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