hardware RAM disk

[Richard Pieri]

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.