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Hard Drive of the Future: Ram Drive
benzick writes "3d Retreat has posted a hands on look at a 2gig ram drive called the Rocket Drive. Article blurb: Overall the rocket drive is the best in I/O performance I have seen. It outperforms U160 SCSI drives by almost a factor of two. Yet there are some drawbacks to the Rocket drive, foremost is the price, although listed at the end of the review is some alternative pricing options to make it less expensive. And the rocket drive can not act as a boot drive. Also, if you have some extra money to spend, you can use multiple rocket drives in parallel."
plan9 users a multi-computer concept
1 : file server - all it does is serve files and does backups to WORM. HD Crash only loses todays changes.
2 : auth server - boots from the file server and issues authentication. crash - np reboot it and off you go
3 : cpu server - runs the programs, if it crashes then so what, only data in it's memory will be corrupt, the file server will not have crashed
4 : terminals - bootstrap from a floppy/cdrom/localhd to get authed and then into booting from the file server [or run a windows/bsd/linux client]
One can then add new nodes for redundancy and scale. Local terminals can have local storage if desired
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
OK that site pisses me off. They pull that stupid ass 'split the article into multiple pages to get more banner views' trick, but A) they split them into 1 or 2 paragraph pages, and B) the only banner they're running is their own. So, what, they're splitting the article up so they'll pay themselves more? Or are they just trying to inflate their # of hits to try to attract more advertisers? (If it's the latter, congrats, /. just helped them more than they could have ever imagined!)