> > If that's not the problem and you just really have an incredibly > > disk-intensive application, you might consider a solid state disk if it's > > really that important. You can buy them with IDE or SCSI > > interface, so they > > look and act like regular hard drives. > > This is a very good idea except for cost. Have you seen the price of solid > state disks? The cheapest ones I've seen are over $50K. Do you know of any > cheaper ones? The new motherboards will probably be able to support more > than 4GB leaving room for a cheap virtual solid state drive...
I saw them for $2K for 2 GB which is 3-4x the cost of the memory. I'm not sure how the performance would compare versus the virtual approach like you say--it is a little hard to believe it would justify the cost just on that. However there would be other benefits to having it in hardware. For example I'd love to see a server boot off one. 8)
