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Re: Ramdisk + harddrive

Subject: Re: Ramdisk + harddrive
From: osgeld <kevin@hackaday.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:43:35 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:51:43 AM UTC-5, Payton Byrd wrote:
> It seems to me that a RAM card that utilizes FLASH RAM would be a great modern product that would really help when using a RAM DISK.  The FLASH would shadow system RAM and be written only when writes happen to the RAM DISK, not for general purpose usage of the RAM.

TI's FRAM would be a good candidate here, writes almost as fast as modern sram, can act as sram, but is non volatile, and they claim it has a almost infinite amount of write cycles (and its not too expensive either)

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- Ramdisk + harddrive
  - From: Rommel Junta <moddkid@gmail.com>
- Re: Ramdisk + harddrive
  - From: Payton Byrd <plbyrd@gmail.com>

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