Odd storage question

[Aree Soothsayer]

Are there pci cards you can install old system ram into? I have my old ddr3 ram and thought I might be able to use it as a disk solely for virtual ram.

[Grabhanem]

6 minutes ago, Aree Soothsayer said:

Are there pci cards you can install old system ram into? I have my old ddr3 ram and thought I might be able to use it as a disk solely for virtual ram.

It used to exist back in the DDR/DDR2 days:

 

I doubt anyone makes one anymore, as the controller chip was extremely expensive and the capacity was pretty small.

[Derpanieux]

There was an LTT video on one of these types of things before:

To my knowledge there is no modern version of this type of product, since SATA SSDs have gotten so cheap anyways

[Aree Soothsayer]

7 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

It used to exist back in the DDR/DDR2 days:

 

I doubt anyone makes one anymore, as the controller chip was extremely expensive and the capacity was pretty small.

 

5 minutes ago, Derpanieux said:

There was an LTT video on one of these types of things before:

To my knowledge there is no modern version of this type of product, since SATA SSDs have gotten so cheap anyways

 

Well foo. Thanks for finding the video.