100GB of DDR RAM?

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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?

sincerely,

/iaw
 
Previously ivowel said:
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?
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There are server boards that can support up to 16 fully buffered
modules. Tht is propaby the maximum feasible today. Note that
fully buiffered modules are more expensive.

If you need fast access, ues a solid-state disk instead.

You can, of course, always get a "big iron", but there
is nothing affordable in thet machine class.

Arno
 
ivowel said:
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?
Click to expand...

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/
 
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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