In <[email protected]>, on 08/11/2010
at 08:30 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>As long as DASD technology is able to continue to provide storage
>capacity, access speeds, and reliability that are adequate for
>real-world business applications at lower cost than this directly
>connected RAM envisioned by Oracle, DASD will continue to play a
>significant role.
Sure, but for how long will those DASD be disk?
>Experience teaches that non-volatile storage
>sometimes becomes volatile,
Even on disks :-(
>Another issue is that closer integration of massive storage with a
>specific server introduces new problems in sharing data with other
>servers or migrating to new servers.
That relates to the claim that the new DASD will be integrated, not to
the claim that it will be flash.
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