World's largest RAM disk
As reported by
TechWorld with a tip 'o the hat to
Slashdot
The USA Government just purchased the worlds largest RAM disk.
A RAM disk is a device that looks like a hard disk drive to the host computer but it is made from solid-state memory chips and not rotating platters and mechanical read/write heads.
Speed, speed and more speed are the benefits.
The company that made this --
Texas Memory Systems has a description of the basic product
here and they are quoting performance of 2 million random I/O requests per second.
The unit supplied to the government is 2.5 Terrabytes capacity.
That is a big database! 1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabyte. 1 Terrabyte = 1024 Gigabytes.
Posted by DaveH at March 9, 2004 2:59 PM