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Date: Sat,  7 Mar 2009 00:45:57 -0500
From: "William K. Josephson" <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Flash
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On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:19:25AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > Sadly, if a WORM is your only application, then no one cares.
> > At least not enough to pony up for real peformance.  The folks
>
> ask not what a technology can do for the world,
> ask what a technology can do for you!

The thing is, flash isn't going to replace disk for WORM-like
applications due to capacity.  It might be very interesting
for things like the index and to replace battery-backed DRAM
for the NVRAM component in an appliance.