On Dec 26, 2007, at 4:28 PM, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
now, if you can afford solid-state drives which don't have noticable seek times, things are completely different ;-)
Who makes one with "infinite" lifetime? The only ones I know of are built using RAM and have disk drive backup with internal monitoring are *really* expensive.
I've pondered building a raid enclosure using these new SATA flash drives, but that would be an expensive brick after a short period as one of my DB servers...
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