Much better to use flash RAM for read heavy applications.
Even there you have to be careful that seek performance, not
throughput, is what is gating your day to day performance with those
tables.
Isn't precisely there where Flash disks would have *the* big advantage??
I mean, access time is severely held down by the *mechanical* movement of
the heads to the right cylinder on the disk --- that's a brutally large
amount of
time compared to anything else happening on the computer (well, floppy
disks aside, and things like trying-to-break-128-bit-encryption aside
:-)).
Or are these Flash disks so slow that they compare to the HD's latency
figures?
Carlos
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