Directron sent out an advertisement that had this down in the detail. I guess I have been under a rock... I didn't realize solid state 'disk' drives were that cheap.
<war story> ... I remember when we got our first 1G RAM disk for mainframes back when. We used it for paging, and it made a HUGE difference in system performance. </war story> Unless you are super IO intensive I would not expect a super performance increase given the on-driver-board caching we do these days, but still it can't help but improve systems that have 'hot IO' on databases, swap, /var , etc. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." — Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
