{"id":3087,"date":"2013-08-02T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2013-08-02T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:39:37","slug":"diablo-technologies-mcs-architecture-uses-flash-memory-as-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/08\/02\/diablo-technologies-mcs-architecture-uses-flash-memory-as-ram\/","title":{"rendered":"Diablo Technologies&#039; MCS architecture uses flash memory as RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new breakthrough in flash memory from Diablo Technologies could have a tremendous impact on the performance of future storage systems. By tapping into the speedy data channel used to link CPUs with system memory, the company claims their Memory Channel Storage (MCS) architecture is able to reduce latencies by more than 85 percent compared to a PCI Express solid state drive.<br \/>\nAs Diablo vice president of marketing Kevin Wagner pointed out, the memory channel is the fastest route to the CPU (aside from on-chip cache) and there\u2019s essentially no bottlenecks to contend with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/53431-diablo-technologies-mcs-architecture-uses-flash-memory-as-ram.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-30-image-10.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With MCS, Diablo essentially figured out how to use the standard DDR3 interface and protocols to work with flash memory in servers. It\u2019s an attractive proposal as flash memory is much cheaper than standard RAM and also much more compact. As such, an MCS component can contain up to 400GBs of storage and fits inside a standard DIMM slot that typically only accommodates 32GB modules.<br \/>\nDiablo says the only change needed to use MCS components is the addition of a few lines of code in the BIOS which sounds like a pretty reasonable tradeoff to me.<br \/>\nJim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said having more RAM is something that a lot of people are going to get very excited about. In an optimal scenario, you\u2019d like everything to be in RAM as it\u2019s faster than traditional storage. Everything that\u2019s in storage is just there because it can\u2019t fit in RAM, he said.<br \/>\nThe technology is already being implemented in the real world as a tier-one server vendor is preparing a dozen or so models that will use MCS. The first models are expected to ship this year, we\u2019re told.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/53431-diablo-technologies-mcs-architecture-uses-flash-memory-as-ram.html\" target=\"_blank\">Diablo Technologies&#8217; MCS architecture uses flash memory as RAM &#8211; TechSpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new breakthrough in flash memory from Diablo Technologies could have a tremendous impact on the performance of future storage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[275,377,665,672,886,1042],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-technology","tag-diablo-technologies","tag-flash-memory","tag-mcs","tag-memory","tag-ram","tag-storage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-NN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9934,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2025\/05\/16\/8000-disaster-prebuilt-pc-corsair-origin-fail-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":3087,"position":0},"title":"$8000* Disaster Prebuilt PC &#8211; Corsair &#038; Origin Fail Again","author":"NCCT","date":"May 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mW5WQY7Ym0I In this review of the Corsair \/ Origin Genesis Pre-Built Gaming PC with an RTX 5090, we're tearing down the computer, running a cost comparison, benchmarking thermals, acoustics, power, and frequency, and looking at the overall build quality. 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