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25 dollar computer coming
curaga:
USB is just about the worst bus to swap over, though. When under memory pressure, hey let's add cpu pressure too ;)
One can swap over network, but I don't think that's still 100% reliable.
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: gerald_clark on June 03, 2011, 02:00:37 PM ---There are thousands of non-solidstate USB drives available. How could you not find one?
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Not to mention that they predate solidstate... ::)
caminati:
--- Quote from: gerald_clark on June 03, 2011, 02:00:37 PM ---There are thousands of non-solidstate USB drives available. How could you not find one?
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Gee... sorry, I forgot to mention that in my raving rant there is no space for magnetic devices: they have moving parts, they are still too big and cumbersome for the roving user.
Never liked that technology, though I must admit they managed to attain wonderful specs with it now. Also, you can fit 128 Gb on a microSD nowadays: you will never get such a high capacity/size ratio with those frantic magnetic disk rotators.
I was thinking about something like sdram or sram on usb. There are newer technologies which would be suitable (T-ram, Z-ram, etc...), all more or less in infancy though:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Computer_memory
I am admittedly just daydreaming, anyway.
danielibarnes:
The HyperOS HyperDrive5 (64GB max: $450) and ACARD ANS-9010 (64GB max: $400) are two examples that come to mind. I expect you could use eSATA or put them in a USB-SATA drive case.
curaga:
Microdrives are CF sized, are they small enough?
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