Re: Budget battery-backed ramdisk (Gigabyte i-RAM)

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Budget battery-backed ramdisk (Gigabyte i-RAM)
Date: 2005-07-27 16:09:11
Message-ID: 1122480551.15145.111.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:56, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> > Review
> > http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480
> > Slashdot
> > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1229211&tid=198
> >
> > Might be useful for those of us working with "budget" systems. If
> > anyone does make a purchase, please post your investigations to
> > the list - I for one would be interested.
>
> But don't put important data on it since it doesn't do ECC RAM....

Considering the small incremental cost of ECC ram, it's hard to believe
someone would build one of those without it.

Heck, I'd think a RAID5 array of Ipod shuffles might be more reliable.
That's a joke, but only halfway...

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