We can give servers more memory, claims Diablo. Well, sort of

Why volatile?

I think these are a great idea, but why are they not non-volatile? This just makes them a slower, cheaper RAM. Why not make them non-volatile and allow them to be used "as a disk"?

At least two points the advertisment (disguised as an article) misses:

1) NAND is very, very slow compared to DRAM so what's the point of in-memory database if it's not (significantly) faster than same DB based on SSD or similar, much cheaper option?

And volatile to boot, which SSD, based on same technology, isn't.

2) How many times you can write to these NANDs before it's time to replace the chips?

On hard drives this isn't a major problem but NAND as a memory it is.

What specifically is the market growing from $4.3b to $18.9b?

Is that Server DIMM/LRDIMM, PCIe cards, MCS cards?

Interesting innovation. Diablo is doing some great stuff. Surprised they are still private or not IPO'd.

Seems like quite an expensive NAND

Quick math its $5/GB, you only get max of 1TB NAND per server

And proprietary/non-standard stack

This is when NVMe drives are gowing below $2/GB, can hold more than 4TB per drive, and come with standard stack and a growing eco system

Diablo need to come with innovation on how to combine dram and nand, and lower the cost quite a bit to make it interesting

Yaron

Holy hell

There are still Netlist shills.

Will you people let it go? You lost. Do you really need to drag your sorry, wrecked egos through the mud again, chasing after Diablo jumping up and down trying to lash out? FFS, just let Netlist crawl into a corner and die with whatever pathetic shreds of dignity it has left.

You hardcore Netlist believers are about as crazy as the two people who believe SCO's bullshit and try to convince the world of it. Find a new religion. Yeesh.