On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:02 AM, 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):
This has been posted before, and the main reason nobody got very
excited is that:
a) it only uses the PCI bus to provide power to the device, not for I/O
b) It is limited to SATA bandwidth
c) The benchmarks did not prove it to be noticeably faster than a
good single SATA drive
A few of us were really excited at first too, until seeing the
benchmarks..
-Dan
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