From: Alex Turner <armtuk@gmail.com>
To: PFC <lists@boutiquenumerique.com>
Cc: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
Cc: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Cheap RAM disk?
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:10:11 -0400
Message-ID: <33c6269f0507261210400dff27@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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<op.sui82lnith1vuj@localhost>
Please see:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145309
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145416
The price of Reg ECC is not significantly higher than regular ram at
this point. Plus if you go with super fast 2-2-2-6 then it's actualy
more than good ol 2.5 Reg ECC.
Alex Turner
NetEconomist
On 7/26/05, PFC <lists@boutiquenumerique.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm a little leary as it is definitely a version 1.0 product (it is
> > still using an FPGA as the controller, so they were obviously pushing to
> > get the card into production).
>
> Not necessarily. FPGA's have become a sensible choice now. My RME studio
> soundcard uses a big FPGA.
>
> The performance in the test doesn't look that good, though, but don't
> forget it was run under windows. For instance they get 77s to copy the
> Firefox source tree on their Athlon 64/raptor ; my Duron / 7200rpm ide
> drive does it in 30 seconds, but not with windows of course.
>
> However it doesnt' use ECC so... That's a pity, because they could have
> implemented ECC in "software" inside the chip, and have the benefits of
> error correction with normal, cheap RAM.
>
> Well; wait and see...
>
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