I was trying to install a software on my ageing laptop and had issues due to lack of disk space. Ruthlessly, I cleaned my hard disk - deleting some files and moving many to a portable hard disk. This made things good enough to install the software.
When trying to run the software, I had a problem as it needed 2-4 GB RAM while I had only 1 GB. Increasing virtual memory, swap size etc did not help much. That is when I thought that it would have been great had a USB-based portable RAM chip/drive existed. One could plug it in just like a portable hard disk/flash memory drive and the laptop would take whatever additional RAM needed from it.
This idea generated quite a bit of interest when I discussed it with colleagues. And I do hope that Seagate, SanDisk, Kingston and others feel excited to hear this and design it for us.
