Flash Ram can be mounted as an IDE device. It is faster than a drive,
but slower than DRAM. Cost is minimal... .but my concern is 'how many
times can it be written to and erased?'... Is it infinite or is there a
limit?  It works great for the journal drive in journaling file systems
and I have considered it for the swap partition on Windows systems.
(NTFS is a journaling file system but I don't know how to tell to put
it's journal on a different drive, probably isn't a way). 

Flash Ram drives might work as spool drives for Imail depending on size
of the queue and the answer to my question about life-span.

Mike

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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:06 AM
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Store/Forward Server Spool Partition on RAM Drive


Hello,

Has anyone considered putting the spool partition on a RAM drive?  I
haven't thought about RAM drives since DOS but for a Store and Forward
server it would mean the messages would never have to touch the hard
drive's I/O system.  Right?

Any thoughts or caveats?
  

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