On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:42:51AM -0500, mos wrote: > > External RAM disks that are around 8g are extremely > expensive. Some have built in in battery protection and operate > independently from the OS so if the OS reboots, you still have your data. A > couple of years ago I priced these devices at around $25,000 and that is > quite a lot to spend for only 8g.
Well, it's not really the 8GB that you're paying for. It's the performance. $25,000 for virtually 0ms seek times isn't that bad. How many spindles would you have to buy to do that yourself? Way too many. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.13: up 17 days, processed 875,114,080 queries (589/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
