On Sat Mar 7 00:47:33 EST 2009, j...@eecs.harvard.edu wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:19:25AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > Sadly, if a WORM is your only application, then no one cares. > > > At least not enough to pony up for real peformance. The folks > > > > ask not what a technology can do for the world, > > ask what a technology can do for you! > > The thing is, flash isn't going to replace disk for WORM-like > applications due to capacity. It might be very interesting > for things like the index and to replace battery-backed DRAM > for the NVRAM component in an appliance.
i've been evaluating replacing the worm in the coraid fileserver's sr15x1 with ssd. so far it looks promising. - erik
