Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-05 Thread Merlin Moncure
Chris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Harris) writes: > > 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): > > > > Replying before my other post came thro

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-05 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Harris) writes: > 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): > > Replying before my other post came through.. It looks like their > b

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-04 Thread Jim C. Nasby
There was a discussion about this about 2 months ago. See the archives. On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:02:26PM +0200, 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): > > http://www.tomshardware.co

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 3, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Anybody know a good reason why you can't put a WAL on this, and enjoy a hefty speed boost for a fraction of the price of a traditional SSD? (Yes, it's SATA, not PCI, so the throughput is not all that impressive -- but still, it's got

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-03 Thread Ron Peacetree
L PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 3, 2005 1:21 PM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device 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 ($15

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:15 -0600, Dan Harris wrote: > 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 th

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-03 Thread Dan Harris
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): Replying before my other post came through.. It looks like their benchmarks are markedly improved since the last

Re: [PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-03 Thread Dan Harris
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

[PERFORM] Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

2005-10-03 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
I thought this might be interesting, not the least due to the extremely low price ($150 + the price of regular DIMMs): http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/index.html Anybody know a good reason why you can't put a WAL on this, and enjoy a hefty speed boost for a fraction of the price of