sounds very intresting.... also comes in all other flavours ... PATA, SATA, SCASI and SAS
any one ever tried some of this stuff? how do they compare with normal drives?
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sounds very intresting.... also comes in all other flavours ... PATA, SATA, SCASI and SAS
any one ever tried some of this stuff? how do they compare with normal drives?"They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?" -
The most interesting about those things is the price. Once you've heard that, you won't care about performance anymore
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Such "hdd's" has been around for a while now, they are insanely fast and madly expensive 
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how expensive are we talking about?"They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"Comment
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Eeek! Aren't they like the SS RAM Drives? (But obviously you don't loose the damn data when it powers off...) Yeah, something like £3000+ for something decent. (As in, more than 1GB in size)
Looks like I better start the fortune telling business again and ditch the low time, low paid programmer I was looking at....
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SD, in sizes more than a few GB those things can cost tens of thousands of dollars. You're really much better off with a striped RAID array, SCSI or FC. Or a 64 bit system with lots and lots of RAM.
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When these things first came out a few years ago, their top of the line (I think it was around 32GB) was somewhere in the neighborhood of US$50,000.
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hummm...... it should be intresting to keep an eye out on these....
prices will enevtly drop in say 10years time when regular HDDs hit the wall..."They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"Comment
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Such drives would still be incredibly awesome in heavy use database systems.
Even if you just put the indexes on one of these RAM drives, the performance improvement may be enough to pay for the drive.80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute
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me thinking more along the hidef (upereund) streem data.... faster drives in raid config should=more HD streams... right?"They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"Comment
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"They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"Comment
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Defintely a niche thingy, but I would love to have 2 or 3 Gig one for swap space and temp files
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