Re:SATA HyperDrive5 RAM Drive
by akeck on Thursday September 03, 2015 @04:41PM
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I came across this while looking for a pure RAM USB stick to use as swap on my Raspberry Pi. I didn't find such a beast, unfortunately. I'm also considering sharing some sort of ramdisk via iSCSI from another machine.
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Re:SATA HyperDrive5 RAM Drive
by mschuster91 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:49PM
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Why? The USB bus on the Pi is dead crowded with the NIC, you will suffer from latency issues.
Often enough I ask myself why the network chip couldn't be interfaced with MII like any common cellphone SoC does with WiFi and why the USB host pins of the CPU are not routed through to the MicroUSB connector :/
Yeah, it would slow. ;-) Just for kicks, I was trying to figure out a way to break 1GB, beyond using zram swap. I also have an old 256MB Model B that could be more useful with a little more memory.