Brian Hechinger wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > >> Unfortunately, we need to be careful here with our terminology. >> > > You are completely and 100% correct, Erik. I've been throwing the > term SSD around, but in the context of what I'm thinking, by SSD I > mean this new-fangled flash based SSD. > > >> In this case, I think we want the DRAM SSDs. >> > > Yes, yes you do. I know I say this all the time, and I'm sure you're all > getting tired of me, but I *really* wish Gigabyte (or *ANYONE ELSE*, ahem, > Sun, *cough*) would produce something similar to the iRAM, but with 3.0Gpbs > SATA/SAS and possibly more space, or at least newer, easier to find RAM. > > That would make me *extremely* happy. ;) > > I wish I had the money to bankroll something like that. But sadly, I don't. > > -brian >
There's a small laundry list of things that I really wish I could find some VC capital for (not much, either, may $1m at most), much of which exists right now, but very feature poor/horribly overpriced: * PCI-card based RAM disk (ala iRAM), with 6-8 slots, NiCad battery, and SATA II interface * 3.5" LP disk form-factor RAM disk, SCSI Hotswap or SATA2 interface * 5.25" CDROM-form-factor RAM disk, as above * 3.5" LP disk form factor, SCSI hotswap/SATA2 and 4-8 Compact Flash card slots * Huge RAM drive in a 1U small case (ala Cisco 2500-series routers), with SAS or FC attachment. * 2.5" (or 1.8") drive on a PCI-card And, of course, the holy grail: a socket 940 Opteron with AMD-V hardware extensions. :-) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
