Hi all,
I'm sure most of you may know about this already, though I'm just posting in the hope to start a little discussion. The article I'm discussing can be found here.
TL;DR: Intel have codesigned a new Flash technology that is 1000 times quicker than existing SSDs. This to me would indicate that the speeds are approaching, or exceeding, RAM read speeds.
It's quite exciting. The way I envision it is that you'd purchase, for instance, a '1TB computer'. The operating system would make up 20GB or so, with perhaps an additional 8GB or 16GB always free but hidden so that it can be used as RAM. The remaining free space would be utilised like when the OS pages when it runs out of RAM, while simultaneously being used as hard-drive space. So the OS can grab as much RAM as it needs and there won't be any performance deficit as the speeds will be ridiculously quick. And the hidden space on the OS ensures that you won't cripple the RAM if the hard-drive gets full.
Not only that, but general system performance will be outstanding with those sorts of speeds. If this technology was implemented then I imagine you'd need an OS redesign to fully make use of the hardware.
So, penny for your thoughts. What does everybody think?
I'm sure most of you may know about this already, though I'm just posting in the hope to start a little discussion. The article I'm discussing can be found here.
TL;DR: Intel have codesigned a new Flash technology that is 1000 times quicker than existing SSDs. This to me would indicate that the speeds are approaching, or exceeding, RAM read speeds.
It's quite exciting. The way I envision it is that you'd purchase, for instance, a '1TB computer'. The operating system would make up 20GB or so, with perhaps an additional 8GB or 16GB always free but hidden so that it can be used as RAM. The remaining free space would be utilised like when the OS pages when it runs out of RAM, while simultaneously being used as hard-drive space. So the OS can grab as much RAM as it needs and there won't be any performance deficit as the speeds will be ridiculously quick. And the hidden space on the OS ensures that you won't cripple the RAM if the hard-drive gets full.
Not only that, but general system performance will be outstanding with those sorts of speeds. If this technology was implemented then I imagine you'd need an OS redesign to fully make use of the hardware.
So, penny for your thoughts. What does everybody think?