From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 27 15:13: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns3.zoomnet.net (ns3.zoomnet.net [206.230.102.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC7214F14 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cygone@zoomnet.net) Received: from windows (cygone.zoomnet.net [208.32.49.7]) by ns3.zoomnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA29183 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00a601bed87c$8b25b0c0$0200000a@windows.cygone.com> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: Subject: Re: sold state drives... Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:08:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I meant to add this to the other message, so pardon this one.. Most Pentium boards will hold up to 2 gigs of RAM now I think, you could just do it with a RAM disk and a backup hard drive. When it boots, copy everything from the hard disk to the RAM disk and off you go.. Granted, it's not a pretty solution, but gives you the same access time (probably 7-9ns depending on the board and RAM) but I'm not positive, I know no one that has done that so I speak strictly in theory.. -Mitch "When all your plans fail, backup, re-group and press on. The only real failure is quitting..." -----Original Message----- From: Mitch Vincent To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 6:08 PM Subject: Re: sold state drives... >2 gigs of RAM is 20 Grand or solid state drives are? > >RAM certainly isn't that expensive. It's more expensive when you get the >higher amounts on one chip, but not anywhere near 20,000 dollars. > >And you must be making a hell of a news server. > >-Mitch > >"When all your plans fail, backup, re-group and press on. The only real >failure is quitting..." > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jake Ott >To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:11 PM >Subject: sold state drives... > > >> >>Anyone had any luck finding solid state drives suitable for a news server? >>Even the "build your own" from your own ram would work. Price is a >>problem with the ones ive found so far, as ~2G was ~20grand. >> >>-Jake >>Systems Administrator >>Front Range Internet >>970.224.3668 x221 >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message