Hi, > There are (very expensive >$30,000) ram disks that > may solve the I/O problem (it that is your problem). These are > hardware RAM > disks complete with onboard battery backup. It looks and acts just like a > super fast hard disk. If you turn the server off (or it crashes) the data > is still retained in RAM. To the OS it looks like another hard disk. I > looked at them a couple of years ago and they were very expensive for the > amount of RAM you get. Perhaps the prices have come down. But it would > certainly speed up your data access.
Prices have certainly come down. I was recently reading about a PCI card solution with capacity from 512MB to 8GB. http://www.platypus.net/qikdrive_brochure.pdf A price I found for 2GB was about $5,000. Interestingly, it uses standard PC100 SDRAM. No on-board battery backup, but it has external backup power (to protect against data loss in the event of a server crash) and a UPS option. Regards, Basil Hussain --------------------------------------- Internet Developer, Kodak Weddings E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Filter bait: SQL, query, MySQL) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
