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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  7 Mar 2009 09:42:00 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Flash
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On Sat Mar  7 00:47:33 EST 2009, jkw@eecs.harvard.edu wrote:
> 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.

i've been evaluating replacing the worm in the coraid fileserver's
sr15x1 with ssd.  so far it looks promising.

- erik