From: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:36:11 -0700
Message-ID: <1128360971.27580.2.camel@toonses.gghcwest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D996B9B6-ADB1-4D38-B832-49D0C11DF0B4@drivefaster.net>
References: <20051003110226.GA26883@uio.no>
<D996B9B6-ADB1-4D38-B832-49D0C11DF0B4@drivefaster.net>
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:15 -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>
> > I thought this might be interesting, not the least due to the
> > extremely low
> > price ($150 + the price of regular DIMMs):
> >
> >
> >
>
> This has been posted before, and the main reason nobody got very
> excited is that:
>
> a) it only uses the PCI bus to provide power to the device, not for I/O
> b) It is limited to SATA bandwidth
> c) The benchmarks did not prove it to be noticeably faster than a
> good single SATA drive
>
> A few of us were really excited at first too, until seeing the
> benchmarks..
Also, no ECC support. You'd be crazy to use it for anything.
-jwb
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