Richard Elling wrote: > Erik Trimble wrote: > >> * 5.25" CDROM-form-factor RAM disk, as above >> >> > > CD-ROMs are dead. With the size of slim DVDs today, you wouldn't > be able to put much space in them. > > The point here is a 5.25" half height device, that will fit in a drive bay that is still *very* common in most cases (maybe not rackmount cases though) made today. CD's being dead, and slim drives being available, doesn't mean that these spaces aren't out there in cases that could be used better. Look at the mulittude of XXin1 card readers, or the Sound Blaster Audio front panel, The Abit overclocking thingy, that all mount in one of these drive bays.
I can imagine how many DIMMs you could probably stick in the volume of space available in one of these, it's not a bad idea. > The holy grail is fast, non-volatile main memory -- and we can forget all > about "disks" :-) > Don't forget density. RAM seems denser than Disks at first glance, but once you add circuit boards, support chips, and space for cooling it really seems the other way around. I don't think I could squeeze 1TB of RAM (what are DIMMS up to these days 4GB? 8GB? that's 128 DIMMs) into a 3.5"x1" volume like you can get a drive into. Then there's the cost! ;) -Kyle _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
