From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 27 16:10: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from elara.frii.com (elara.frii.com [216.17.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97D91538C for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jott@frii.net) Received: from localhost (jott@localhost) by elara.frii.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA73067 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:08:36 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: elara.frii.com: jott owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:08:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Jake Ott X-Sender: jott@elara.frii.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sold state drives... In-Reply-To: <00a601bed87c$8b25b0c0$0200000a@windows.cygone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org that figure was for prebuilt drives, not for do it yourself drives. -Jake Systems Administrator Front Range Internet 970.224.3668 x221 On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Mitch Vincent wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message