<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">A SATA RAM disk would cost much more than an SSD. There are a couple older solutions that are SATA-compliant but demand was quite low due to the costs. You would still need a storage fallback to repopulate the RAM in the case of power loss as well.<div><br></div><div>Really at this point SSD prices are quite low, especially for low-capacity. If you want to go lower-cost in mass-production, you can use eMMC, which BYT-I fully supports. And fast USB 3.0 flash media is readily available in mass-production build types too… we’re expecting controller-driven USB flash drives to proliferate next year.</div><div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Sep 12, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Ken Tait <<a href="mailto:ktait@venturesystemdesign.com">ktait@venturesystemdesign.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">There is actually another way to do this.<br><br>You could make a lure that looks like a SATA drive but is actually a large amount of static or dynamic ram and set it as the swap space.<br>If you make it static ram, you could battery back this up for more reliability.<br><br>The SD card could then be just standard file store.<br><br>I did something like this in the old days....<br><br>Just a thought<br>Ken<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list<br><a href="mailto:elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org">elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org</a><br>http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>