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Samsung Memory Breakthrough Will Give Us 32GB RAM Sticks

If 16GB memory modules really become common place, 128-256GB server memory setups should be relatively cheap.

This year we will see commodity servers running 32 threads simultaneously with 128Gb of memory and enough disk IO to handle a few hundred user databases. It's becoming increasingly difficult to imagine tasks that require anything more in a business environment. I'm starting to feel old.
 
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Samsung Memory Breakthrough Will Give Us 32GB RAM Sticks

Who the heck would ever use this much?
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Originally posted by: ochadd
If 16GB memory modules really become common place, 128-256GB server memory setups should be relatively cheap.

This year we will see commodity servers running 32 threads simultaneously with 128Gb of memory and enough disk IO to handle a few hundred user databases. It's becoming increasingly difficult to imagine tasks that require anything more in a business environment. I'm starting to feel old.
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Answered.
 
The 32GB possibility will no doubt be an expensive one, as it will require the sandwiching of two 16GB modules into a single dual-die unit, a method which can double the capacity of a single stick with negligible increases in size.
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The 32GB part is mostly hyperbole, no one makes sandwiched commodity modules AFAIK. Even if they did, they would be ECC Registered parts and be intended for very high-end servers (i.e. not something most of us will ever see).

These chips will give us regular folk 8GB modules, however. 😀
 
Originally posted by: aka1nas
The 32GB possibility will no doubt be an expensive one, as it will require the sandwiching of two 16GB modules into a single dual-die unit, a method which can double the capacity of a single stick with negligible increases in size.
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The 32GB part is mostly hyperbole, no one makes sandwiched commodity modules AFAIK. Even if they did, they would be ECC Registered parts and be intended for very high-end servers (i.e. not something most of us will ever see).

These chips will give us regular folk 8GB modules, however. 😀
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4 * 8gig of ram, imagine how long it'll take to hibernate the comp :shocked:
 
Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
Originally posted by: aka1nas
The 32GB possibility will no doubt be an expensive one, as it will require the sandwiching of two 16GB modules into a single dual-die unit, a method which can double the capacity of a single stick with negligible increases in size.
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The 32GB part is mostly hyperbole, no one makes sandwiched commodity modules AFAIK. Even if they did, they would be ECC Registered parts and be intended for very high-end servers (i.e. not something most of us will ever see).

These chips will give us regular folk 8GB modules, however. 😀
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4 * 8gig of ram, imagine how long it'll take to hibernate the comp :shocked:
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Hopefully if a person actually needed a 32GB system they would also need a 4x raid-0 equivalent SSD array boasting something around 1GB/s write bandwidth.
 
If I could get 20GB+ at DDR2 prices right now, I would for sure. I'd make a RAM drive for games which would allow me to pass on SSDs for awhile. Just mount the entire game folder for any particular game that I'm playing.

From what I've read though, chipsets and BIOS will still limit the adoption of more RAM in th near-term. I think Core i7's IMC is currently limited to 24GB, but the various boards out now only support 12GB max. This may change of course if we start getting 4GB Dimms and Nehalem-based Xeons start rolling out in a few months.
 
For sure, we'll see more ECC technology. With shrinking feature size and more total memory, the effects of cosmic radiation and other random errors will become significant if nothing is done to discover and correct them.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
For sure, we'll see more ECC technology. With shrinking feature size and more total memory, the effects of cosmic radiation and other random errors will become significant if nothing is done to discover and correct them.
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This.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
For sure, we'll see more ECC technology. With shrinking feature size and more total memory, the effects of cosmic radiation and other random errors will become significant if nothing is done to discover and correct them.
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Lead memory dust covers.
 
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