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

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device
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Msg-id DAA747F6-20F7-4187-8EE4-70447F5A268A@khera.org
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In response to Ultra-cheap NVRAM device  ("Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Oct 3, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> Anybody know a good reason why you can't put a WAL on this, and
> enjoy a hefty
> speed boost for a fraction of the price of a traditional SSD? (Yes,
> it's
> SATA, not PCI, so the throughput is not all that impressive -- but
> still,
> it's got close to zero seek time.)
>

old news.  discussed here a while back.

the board you see has no ECC.  Would you trust > 1GB RAM to not have
ECC for more than 1 month?  You're almost guaranteed at least 1 bit
error.


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