> I don't know how long flash cards would last as swap (they do wear out, > but they would be easy to replace).
You'd better look up the numbers and do the math. If you are wanting solid state swap for better performance, you must be constantly paging/swapping which is going to run up the number of writes in a hurry. If you're *not* constantly paging/swapping, what's wrong with a normal disk? > I do see that they have ECC and > wear leveling which would help. Without ECC plan on corrupted data. > I also noted the i-RAM PCI card: $160. Also rather expensive. However > RAM would probably be better for swap. This card uses up to four DDR > memory modules. Unless there is some type of less expensive RAM to use > in such a card, I don't see the point since it would probably cost about > the same as adding more RAM to your system. The point would be if you have already maxed out main memory. > Is there a cheaper type of > RAM to make something in the 2GB to 16GB range? Older types of memory > modules seem to be going up in price per bit. Probably isn't true of chips. For 2 GiB can you just add main memory? I haven't priced memory recently, but 2 years ago 2 GiB of ECC DDR400 was US$248 including shipping. That's less than the engadget adapter you reference and I assume the adapter doesn't include the flash. They make mainboards that can take lots of memory. (Tyan for example.) See also: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/1424247 about using the GPU's memory as swap. (No, I don't know of any GPUs with 2-16 GiB of memory.) I assume you've already looked at your app to make sure it isn't doing something stupid that wastes vast amounts of space. _______________________________________________ Open-hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware
