How about this: Gigabyte I-Ram: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480
It doesn't meet your criteria necessarily (definitely not cheaper than RAM, cause it uses Ram... and costs $170 just for the card) but it should meet anyone's needs for a fast /tmp drive... Andrew Tim Fournet wrote: > Makes sense for systems where running RAID uses more CPU time due to > computing parity or uses more time to write the extra data to the > RAIDed devices. I really wish that there were some intermediate data > storage available for systems like this.. something cheaper than RAM > but capable of storing a few gigs of data at a pretty fast rate, > though not as fast as RAM. Some sort of device that would be suitable > for swap files/partitions or /tmp partitions would be really nice. > > -ray wrote: > >> >> hahaha someone just sent me this...very funny. >> >> "Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a >> mirrored >> volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need >> fault-tolerance."-MS Q308417 >> >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308417 >> >> ray > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
