SSD Prices in a Free Fall

Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by icebraining on Monday June 22, 2015 @04:14PM (#9760885)

if you address space is large enough, you could implement this as a virtual memory system that swaps RAM to disk, disk to slower disk, slower disk to tape, tapes to tapes stored offline, etc.

Funny to imagine,

  - My program has been stuck copying a variable for over half an hour!
  - Yeah, there was a page fault and the tape loading guy still hasn't come from lunch

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Re:SSD Prices in a Free Fall by Someone on Monday June 22, 2015 @04:54PM (#9761128)

Yes, but the other side of the coin is "why are those pages of the program still on disk? They haven't been touched in years". But such systems tend to keep parts under human control.

You rarely ever need your fire extinguisher, but that doesn't mean the LRU replacement algorithm that keeps your house clean can move them to the back of your attic.

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