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Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives by greggyb on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:17PM (#19850883)
SSD on DIMM.
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Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives by 24gttghh on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:40PM (#19851090)
So, a RAM Drive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive

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Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives by NullPrefix on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @01:07PM (#19851329)
RAM drive used RAM as a storage device. This is the other way around. Storage used as RAM. Drive RAM, if you will.
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Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives by greggyb on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:45PM (#19853280)
No. RAM drives use normal, volatile RAM. Power down and it all goes away. SSD is non-volatile. Power down and it stays.

DIMM is a form factor and specific bus for getting data from storage on one side of the slot to CPU on the other. This is putting a different type of storage on the other side of that bus.

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