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ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years (www.pcgamer.com)

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I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can't wait to tell him.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It would have to be always active, checking for radiation induced flips, not just powered off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My initial thought was that everything would be stored in triplicate, then read in triplicate and 'voted' to the correct value, but I guess even that only extends the time before random bit-flips make the data unreadable. You're probably right on the need for active error checking if there is an intention to store anything long-term in this manner.