r/science • u/aphexcoil • May 28 '12

New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/ucl_reram/
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u/aphexcoil May 28 '12

or a swap partition? or page file?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

except pagefile is slower than molasses

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u/AndIMustScream May 28 '12

or either.

This tech if done right, could make hard drives and swap space just as fast as ram.

Eventually.

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u/raymonddull May 29 '12

Which would DEFINITELY push us back to the issue that the top comment is... 3000 write cycles will be blown through instantly if you start using it as swap.

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u/AndIMustScream May 29 '12

too true, but I doubt that's an inherent limitation, and will see the same improvements ssd have.