Jim,
> PostgreSQL tuned to the max and still too slow? Database too big to
> fit into memory? Here's the solution! http://www.superssd.com/
> products/tera-ramsan/
With a single 3 Gbyte/second infiniband connection to the device?
You'd be better off with 4 x $10K servers that do 800MB/s from disk each and
a Bizgres MPP - then you'd do 3.2GB/s (faster than the SSD) at a price 1/10
of the SSD, and you'd have 24TB of RAID5 disk under you.
Plus - need more speed? Add 12 more servers, and you'd run at 12.8GB/s and
have 96TB of disk to work with, and you'd *still* spend less on HW and SW
than the SSD.
- Luke