--- Dieter wrote: 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.) --- end of quote ---
RAM is much cheaper these days. At least for Macs, DDR667 1GB SODIMMs are around $48 these days, which makes it even more reasonable. I do like the idea of the flash drive/RAM hard drive. While I don't really care to have one, I think that many others would like to "reap the performance benefits" (which I don't really see in the USB flash drive model, but is very true of the RAM HD). It would be a quite simple device, especially if RAM is used -- you could probably just map it directly into PCI IO space or something. We could set up ODG1 to act as a RAM HD to see if this is worth it, then design a different board with a *much* smaller, cheaper FPGA and more RAM. _______________________________________________ Open-hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hardware
