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Holy haberdashery, Batman! That thing has 50 µs latency! That's 0.049ms latency! I bet that pile of SLC chips on that controller card with its own processing unit is a pile of money.
EDIT: I just looked it up and found a RamSan 120 (not sure the difference from the 20 model). But that 120 is $20k. Bob, I'll bid on the car instead.
EDIT 2: Looks like the 20 is $18k. Still crippling pain: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...as_memory_ssd/. That thing has its own CPU and four on-board RAID 5 controllers with an average of 80,000 IOPS (70-30 mix for read/write).
EDIT 3: (I try to avoid multiple posts sometimes) Even CCP uses it for their EVE Online servers: http://www.ramsan.com/success/ccpgames.htm. Antman, thanks for opening my eyes to the fastest piece of storage out there. Lol, now I have a max, mental reference point for 2009 storage performance. Those should peak 7.9 on WEI I'd hope, but people using those are running BSD/Linux/Windows servers. :)
EDIT 4: I retract my mental reference and replace it with something even faster and more insane: 600,000 IOPS at 15µs: http://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-440.htm
Last edited by ciphernemo; 15 Jul 2009 at 14:22.