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Subject: hardware RAM disk
From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:10:24 -0400
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On May 12, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Should be faster than a Flash-based solid state drive. The  
> manufacturer
> claims "IOPS 130,000 per SATA port."
>
> So what would *you* use it for? A ZFS write cache, perhaps?

Personally, I wouldn't.

Professionally, anything that requires extremely high burst write  
speeds.  Database translogs for example.

--Rich P.

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  - From: tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)

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