It was an ADATA 32GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM for me, at €130 I just couldn't resist giving it a try.
Got it yesterday and put it into one of my Atom J5005 based slient µ-servers first, which are currently running with 32GB (official maximum is 8GB).
Unfortunately that refused to boot.
Put it into a Skylake based Gigabyte P35X v6 notebook next (with GTX 1070 used for GPU compute) and that jumped from 32GB to 48GB no problem.
I'll get another stick over the week-end and enjoy 64GB of RAM in a very slim (but terribly noisy under load) notebook, that could also expand to 20TB of solid state storage (2x 2.5" and 2x NVMe). With 1TB on µSD these days we know that density is not the issue when it comes to capacity.
I wish they'd do ECC variants at 13% extra cost and similar speeds: At these capacities I start to worry about bit flips on stuff that runs 24x7.
That notebook proves that you can put a quite usable amount of server compute power into a rather compact form factor and with a shoebox sized Mini-ITX chassis have it operate very quietly.
NVMe or even 2.5" SSD storage provides storage speeds and capacities that used to require two racks of disks not long ago and with these DRAM densities and core counts exploding... the portable virtual data center becomes very real.
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Samus - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - link
Jesus, 64GB RAM in a mainstream laptop for $300.PeachNCream - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - link
I suppose that yes, it could be a religious experience for someone to obtain 64GB of RAM for a laptop.abufrejoval - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - link
It was an ADATA 32GB DDR4-3200 SO-DIMM for me, at €130 I just couldn't resist giving it a try.Got it yesterday and put it into one of my Atom J5005 based slient µ-servers first, which are currently running with 32GB (official maximum is 8GB).
Unfortunately that refused to boot.
Put it into a Skylake based Gigabyte P35X v6 notebook next (with GTX 1070 used for GPU compute) and that jumped from 32GB to 48GB no problem.
I'll get another stick over the week-end and enjoy 64GB of RAM in a very slim (but terribly noisy under load) notebook, that could also expand to 20TB of solid state storage (2x 2.5" and 2x NVMe). With 1TB on µSD these days we know that density is not the issue when it comes to capacity.
I wish they'd do ECC variants at 13% extra cost and similar speeds: At these capacities I start to worry about bit flips on stuff that runs 24x7.
That notebook proves that you can put a quite usable amount of server compute power into a rather compact form factor and with a shoebox sized Mini-ITX chassis have it operate very quietly.
NVMe or even 2.5" SSD storage provides storage speeds and capacities that used to require two racks of disks not long ago and with these DRAM densities and core counts exploding... the portable virtual data center becomes very real.