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Comment by rando1234

7 hours ago

What will be the durability/lifetime properties of this technology in comparison to traditional DRAM?

Likely much worse write endurance than DRAM, since it’s still flash underneath. The saving grace is that model weights are mostly read-heavy, so endurance may matter less than it sounds.

  • True, but every time you load a new set of model weights, you are spending writes.

    • Yeah, but how often is this? Certainly there are weird hobbyist edge cases that don't do well with this, that's true of anything, but a provider is loading weights once every few months

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