Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ultra-cheap NVRAM device
Date: 2005-10-03 19:06:15
Message-ID: DAA747F6-20F7-4187-8EE4-70447F5A268A@khera.org
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On Oct 3, 2005, at 7:02 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> 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.)
>

old news. discussed here a while back.

the board you see has no ECC. Would you trust > 1GB RAM to not have
ECC for more than 1 month? You're almost guaranteed at least 1 bit
error.

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