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thessdguy.com
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thessdguy.com is a personal blog at thessdguy.com about hardware and systems. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Intel's Cascade Lake memory capacity, where a commenter explained NVDIMM SSDs in memory slots, their Linux pmem support and Optane persistent memory. The blog covers SSD storage hardware.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
The idea of putting ssds in memory dimms isn't new, the jedec standard for this is included in ddr3. It's referred to as an nvdimm(-f for SSD), sandisk and IBM both produced and sold them. These are supported since Linux kernel 4.1 and show up as a block device in /dev/pmem. The latest optane variants are nvdimm-p and are not treated like block storage devices but instead as persistent memory to the OS. The storage…
Comment linking /an-nvdimm-primer-part-1-of-2/
on “Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket”Submitted How Controllers Maximize SSD Life (2012) as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI's Feeding Frenzy Killed My Sites (2023) as a story · 3 points
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