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RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago

Enterprise server use mainly, to minimize downtime, which is a huge deal there. On the consumer level it doesn't have much purpose.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm curious, does a 3 minutes power down to replace a RAM stick is that much of a deal in enterprise server that they need to invented a whole new technology just for that?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The coveted 5 9s of availability is only 5.26 minutes of downtime

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

5.26 minutes per year*

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