Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:15 -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>
> > I thought this might be interesting, not the least due to the
> > extremely low
> > price ($150 + the price of regular DIMMs):
> >
> >
> >
>
> This has been posted before, and the main reason nobody got very
> excited is that:
>
> a) it only uses the PCI bus to provide power to the device, not for I/O
> b) It is limited to SATA bandwidth
> c) The benchmarks did not prove it to be noticeably faster than a
> good single SATA drive
>
> A few of us were really excited at first too, until seeing the
> benchmarks..

Also, no ECC support. You'd be crazy to use it for anything.

-jwb