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Running Operating System from memory

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20266059 views
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Assuming SSD's are extremely prone to faliure how economical would it be to load an OS into main memory and run it from there? I can think I can deal with a few obvious drawbacks (I've survived inside the bounds of a 20gig VM for the last 2 years), but what are the pro's, con's, requirements and co…

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Good question, but I think you're missing something - most of the operating system is already loaded into the system's memory on startup. Every programmer in the world knows what the slowdown/bottleneck is in a computer (the disk drive, regardless o…

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