Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:10:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this. Message-ID: <20090623201041.GA23561@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860906231222r65faaf1cia6b68186c79f4791@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090622230729.GA20167@thought.org> <a9f4a3860906231222r65faaf1cia6b68186c79f4791@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:22:19PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 16:07, Gary Kline<kline@thought.org> wrote: > > For a small unit like this, SSD is really nice. > > But, for my workstations/servers, I'm wondering if a pure > battery-backed RAM disk, in RAID1 with a regular hard drive, might be > the real screamer. battery-backed ram sound great for the time being! if not now [this minute], then relatively soon, i'm guessing within a few years somebody will have a solid-state device that emulates the current mechanical technology. it will wind up being considerably faster than the current drives and suck Much less juice. oh yeah, and in a few years *every* computer will have a battery back up --not just our laptops. after some N minutes everything will be saved. much less lost data due to sudden power outtages. gary > > Kurt -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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