On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:48, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> 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. Not that I can afford one, of course ... -- Ginsberg's Theorem: 1) You can't win. 2) You can't break even. 3) You can't quit the game.
