On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John Smith<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/3 Matt Amos <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:24 AM, sylvain letuffe<[email protected]> wrote: >>> My next step would be to conduct tests on a larger disk number raid0 array >>> (or hope for ssd disk prices to lower :-) ) >> >> that's what i'm waiting for too. as soon as i can get 500Gb of SSD for >> a sensible price, i'm going shopping. ;-) > > Flash memory isn't as fast as system ram, and you can get ram drives > that have on board batteries to keep the memory contents until the > system comes back on.
yeah, but they're (very) expensive. just did a little price-up and 500Gb of ramdisk would cost about £9,152. 500Gb of intel x25-m would cost £1,280. when the cost of either goes below £280**, i'm interested ;-) cheers, matt **: £280 is the cost of 2x 300Gb WD raptors. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
