When I was in college in 1998, my college had a SSDD (Solid State Disk Drive) setup as a swap-file disk on our class registration database server. It was only Ultra Wide SCSI-3 (40 Mbit/s), but adding that drive as a swap partition and storage of temporary tables cut the time required to register for any give class from 3 minutes to 15 seconds.
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When I was in college in 1998, my college had a SSDD (Solid State Disk Drive) setup as a swap-file disk on our class registration database server. It was only Ultra Wide SCSI-3 (40 Mbit/s), but adding that drive as a swap partition and storage of temporary tables cut the time required to register for any give class from 3 minutes to 15 seconds.