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Non-Volatile DIMMs To Ship This Year

Posted by samzenpus on from the coming-soon dept.

Lucas123 writes "Both Viking and Micron plan to ship cards that combine DRAM and NAND flash on a standard DDR3 DIMM. The cards will have twice as much NAND flash as volatile memory. For example, the non-volatile DIMMs will come in capacities ranging from 4GB of DRAM to 16GB and 8GB of flash to 32GB of flash. Micron also sees its NVDIMM card being used as a storage tier, as cache for RAID systems, system check pointing, full system persistence, data logging, de-duplication and fast access to metadata. Without providing specifics, Viking said the NVDIMM cards will cost roughly a few hundred dollars each, more than a standard DDR3 DIMM module but still inexpensive enough for server and storage admins to consider for boosting application performance."

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  1. Re:I don't get it... by detritus. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Authorities won't need to freeze RAM sticks anymore to extract encryption keys in memory when seizing servers?

  2. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now Windows problems will not even be fixed with a reboot anymore. Reinstalling will be the only way out.