Comments on: SanDisk Announces Shipment of ULLtraDIMM SSD — Industry’s First Flash-Based Ultra-Low Latency Storage Device

By: BDD

BDD — Fri, 23 May 2014 23:47:00 +0000

In reply to dravo1. As per Diablo website the memory channel architecture allows for byte addressable access. They do not specify when they will start supporting it. If it is supported then, it will be very interesting capability.

By: dravo1

dravo1 — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:18:00 +0000

I do like the use of supercaps on the device as well as dual controllers, which I suspect drives a RAID 0 setup. From the product description it appears that you need to run some special software to manage the flash drive. These DIMMs are NOT byte addressable like real RAM, they just create an SSD drive that has VERY fast access times. They appear to use a full-buffering method of handling the data, command and clock signals to maintain integrity. I’d see these getting use on the large servers that have a few dozen DIMM slots available. These could be rather interesting in heavily virtualized environments.

By: renosablast

renosablast — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:09:00 +0000

In reply to ericbojo. Bear in mind that these are being developed for enterprise applications, not for consumer use. They may eventually be developed for consumer use also, but that is likely still a ways down the road.

By: ericbojo

ericbojo — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:50:00 +0000

but can you boot your OS from it? Will we need new bios to support Ram bootable drives?