Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Apr. 27 - May 3, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 01 May 2015 02:31:57PM 1 point [-]

Depends on the use case, I guess. The memory is non-volatile and the start-up time is negligible. If you only access one petabyte of memory within some time period, the other 99 can stay switched off and emit no heat.