Le mardi 6 mars 2007 23:18, James Mansion a écrit : > I see that one can now get compact flash to SATA connectors. I can suggest you to have a look at Gigabyte i-ram . We use it on a website with higth traffic with lot of succes. Unfortunely, I can not provide any benchmark... > > If I were to use a filesystem with noatime etc and little non-sql traffic, > does the physical update pattern tend to have hot sectors that will tend to > wear out CF? > > I'm wondering about a RAID5 with data on CF drives and RAID1 for teh WAL on > a fast SATA or SAS drive pair. I'm thhinking that this would tend to have > good performance because the seek time for the data is very low, even if > the actual write speed can be slower than state of the art. 2GB CF isn't > so pricey any more. > > Just wondering. > > James > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/711 - Release Date: 05/03/2007 > 09:41 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly