Non-Volatile DIMMs To Ship This Year

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Both Viking and Micron plan to ship cards (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238105/Non_volatile_DIMM_cards_coming_soon_to_a_server_an d_array_near_you) that combine DRAM and NAND flash on a standard DDR3 DIMM. The cards will have twice as much NAND flash as volatile memory. For example, the non-volatile DIMMs will come in capacities ranging from 4GB of DRAM to 16GB and 8GB of flash to 32GB of flash. Micron also sees its NVDIMM card being used as a storage tier, as cache for RAID systems, system check pointing, full system persistence, data logging, de-duplication and fast access to metadata. Without providing specifics, Viking said the NVDIMM cards will cost roughly a few hundred dollars each, more than a standard DDR3 DIMM module but still inexpensive enough for server and storage admins to consider for boosting application performance.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/04/04/016221/non-volatile-dimms-to-ship-this-year