Re: RAM Based Disk Drive?

["Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 10/31/06, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:48, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)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.

well, some motherboards out there, for example the tyan vx50
(http://www.tyan.com/products/html/vx50b4881.html) can stock up to
128gb ram.  For a database server, this will probably outperform the
'ramsan' on many workloads.  the ramsan is easier to stack though.

merlin