Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:02:02 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: solid state drive access and context switching |
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On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:52:20 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > > For things like SATA based devices they aren't that fast yet. > > You forget the Gigabyte i-RAM. > > For others: the i-RAM is a SATA-based device that plugs into a PCI slot > on your motherboard (for power), providing RAM+battery backup as fast as > your SATA bus and DIMMs will go.
Actually even allowing for the iRAM the SATA stuff is way too slow to be worth using synchronously. The latency is a killer.
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