Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dan Harris
Subject Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device
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Msg-id D996B9B6-ADB1-4D38-B832-49D0C11DF0B4@drivefaster.net
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In response to Ultra-cheap NVRAM device  ("Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>)
Responses Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device
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On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> I thought this might be interesting, not the least due to the
> extremely low
> price ($150 + the price of regular DIMMs):
>
>
>

This has been posted before, and the main reason nobody got very
excited is that:

a) it only uses the PCI bus to provide power to the device, not for I/O
b) It is limited to SATA bandwidth
c) The benchmarks did not prove it to be noticeably faster than a
good single SATA drive

A few of us were really excited at first too, until seeing the
benchmarks..

-Dan



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