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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by oneweekwonder on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:39PM (#13909176)
Won't OS just have a service to 0 out all the RAM, definitely on shutdown for security reasons, with a performance hit in time and write cycles on your sdd. Same mechanism at boot?
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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by ori_b on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:50PM (#13909236)
That assumes that the OS didn't crash. It also assumes that the data isn't valuable, in which case why not just use faster, cheaper ram?

There are workarounds, like adding a layer of faster, cheaper ram, but then this starts to look like a big perf improvement in a rather traditional system.

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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by viraptor on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:18AM (#13912363)
And on startup, if anyone could have physical access to your hardware.
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