Re: ramdisks

2008-09-05 Thread Toke Eskildsen
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 11:00 +0200, Toke Eskildsen wrote: > As for Flash-SSDs, we've tried 2 * MTRON 6000 32GB RAID 0, 2 * SanDisk > 5000 32GB RAID 0 and SanDisk something (64GB model) both as single drive > and 4 drives in RAID 0. Update: The "SanDisk something" turned out to be a Samsung MCCOE64

Re: ramdisks

2008-09-05 Thread Toke Eskildsen
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:33 +0200, Cam Bazz wrote: [RAM vs. Flash-SSD vs. harddrives] > I have done similar test with ram vs. disk, and IO was the bottleneck. > What flash ssd did you try with? For disks (as in conventional 10.000/15.000 RPM harddrives), IO is clearly the bottleneck for us also.

Re: ramdisks

2008-09-05 Thread Cam Bazz
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:58 +0200, Cam Bazz wrote: > > anyone using ramdisks for storage? there is ramsam and there is also > fusion > > io. but they are kinda expensive. any other alternatives I wonder? > > We've done some comparisons of RAM (Lucene RAM

Re: ramdisks

2008-09-05 Thread Toke Eskildsen
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:58 +0200, Cam Bazz wrote: > anyone using ramdisks for storage? there is ramsam and there is also fusion > io. but they are kinda expensive. any other alternatives I wonder? We've done some comparisons of RAM (Lucene RAMDirectory) vs. Flash-SSD vs. conventional

ramdisks

2008-09-04 Thread Cam Bazz
hello, anyone using ramdisks for storage? there is ramsam and there is also fusion io. but they are kinda expensive. any other alternatives I wonder? Best.