> > Unfortunately, while there are companies hawking SSDs, they are in the > > "you'll have to talk to our salescritter for pricing" category, which > > means that they must be ferociously expensive. :-(. > > the cheapest I found was the one with external backup power was ~1.8k$ > for 2GB PCI device > > http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/Results.aspx?key=platypus&x=0&y=0
That is pretty neat. > An external 16GB one with battery backup and > write-t-small-ide-drives-on-power-failure was ~25k$ And they scale up from there. This company has one that goes up to 1TB RAM. 4.5kW power consumption? I hate to see what kind of heat that thing generates. http://www.imperialtech.com/pdf/MRSpec_021803.pdf I have no idea what price the monster unit is, but someone described the price of one of the *lesser* units as "made me physically ill". So I can only imagine. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org