I thought this might be interesting, not the least due to the extremely low price ($150 + the price of regular DIMMs):
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/index.html Anybody know a good reason why you can't put a WAL on this, and enjoy a hefty speed boost for a fraction of the price of a traditional SSD? (Yes, it's SATA, not PCI, so the throughput is not all that impressive -- but still, it's got close to zero seek time.) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq