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From: Rolf Blom on 9 Apr 2008 12:39
"ivowel" <ivowel(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
> computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
> rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
> exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
> ideas?

There are some possible uses, like the Hyperdrive or i-RAM products, but
they are a bit expensive even unpopulated; also the Hyperdrive4 require
ECC memory, which may not be what you have available.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/07/hyperdrive_4_redefines_solid_state_storage/
From: Arno Wagner on 9 Apr 2008 12:50
Previously Rolf Blom <all.spam(a)round.bin> wrote:
> "ivowel" <ivowel(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2e243f45-cce2-4199-a1c6-9915554b0ac7(a)m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> Are there any affordable ways to use 50 sticks of 2GB DDR Dimms in a
>> computer? Obviously, I would love a motherboard that has rows and
>> rows of computer addressable memory, but I do not believe this
>> exists. Maybe something emulating a hard drive exists, though. Any
>> ideas?

> There are some possible uses, like the Hyperdrive or i-RAM products, but
> they are a bit expensive even unpopulated; also the Hyperdrive4 require
> ECC memory, which may not be what you have available.

> http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/07/hyperdrive_4_redefines_solid_state_storage/

FOr more than 4 modules, it typically needs to be buffered RAM anyways,
which is not mainstream.

Arno
From: ivowel on 10 Apr 2008 20:13

thanks again, everybody. interesting. Of course, this sort of RAM
access would not be too interesting to common retail users (like me)
with buffered or specialty DIMMs that are far more expensive. It
would also not have been interesting in the past when 1GB cost $200.
However, at today's prices, a 2GB mainstream module costs only about
$40. The memory price for 100GB is only about $2,000. This is
definitely in the price class of a high-end PC. How strange that
there are no easy ways to put a lot of memory (>>8GB) to use in
ordinary PCs. A few bridge chips and/or a SATA bridge. I believe
linux is laid out for memory space of this order of magnitude, so if
the memory controller existed, the OS could probably handle it.

oh well...hopefully soon.

/iaw
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