From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:02:23 -0500
Message-ID: <20051004210223.GA40138@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051003110226.GA26883@uio.no>
References: <20051003110226.GA26883@uio.no>
There was a discussion about this about 2 months ago. See the archives.
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:02:26PM +0200, 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):
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/index.html
>
> Anybody know a good reason why you can't put a WAL on this, and enjoy a hefty
> speed boost for a fraction of the price of a traditional SSD? (Yes, it's
> SATA, not PCI, so the throughput is not all that impressive -- but still,
> it's got close to zero seek time.)
>
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