Ultra fast hard drive/RAM drive...

[Senectus .]

On 1/29/06, John <dingo at coco2.arach.net.au> wrote:
> Senectus . wrote:
> > Wouldn't this be just _so much fun_ to run Ubuntu on?? :-)
> > http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte-iram/index.x?pg=1
>
>
> If you want fast disk, just buy yourself a zSeries. You might not be
> abile to run Ubuntu on it, but you do have choices including Debian, and
> zSeries disk I/O isn't constrained to SATA speeds.
ahh yes I do love IBM gear..
_but_
in all reality.. very different worlds..
a couple of hundred bucks compared to the many thousands for the
lovely Z series...

As for the volatile memory problem.. I'd just write a nice little
script to "ghost" the image to a spare drive in the even of a power
outage.. after all.. It's only around 4 gig of "OS" I wouldn't want to
store much more than that on it...

hmm although a RAID array of these devices _would_ be quite a bit of
fun to play with ;-)


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