On 10/31/06, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
well, some motherboards out there, for example the tyan vx50 (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/vx50b4881.html) can stock up to 128gb ram. For a database server, this will probably outperform the 'ramsan' on many workloads. the ramsan is easier to stack though. merlin
