Re: RAM Based Disk Drive? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: RAM Based Disk Drive?
Date
Msg-id 200610311156.24571@hal.medialogik.com
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In response to Re: RAM Based Disk Drive?  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:48, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>
wrote:
> you are talking about the gigabyte i-ram.  in the database world, you
> can achieve same thing (actually better) by sticking those ram sticks
> directly on the motherboard assuming you are in a 64 bit environment
> and the motherboard is decent.
>
> the main advantage of the iram that i see is faster boot times (big
> woop). call me when they have a version that does 256gb :-)

http://www.superssd.com/products_sub.htm

And, of course, the real advantage to a solid-state drive is random access
speed, which vastly improves both random writes and random reads.

Not that I can afford one, of course ...

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 2) You can't break even.
 3) You can't quit the game.


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