Hello Group,

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with the Gigabyte
I-RAM (or equiv). Basically it is a chip that allows you to use
standard RAM through a SATA connection. It has a battery backup to
hold data if power goes etc, obviously not entirely as durable as hard
disk etc, but certainly a pretty clever concept. To the OS, it looks
like another hard drive, but has the characteristics of RAM. The SATA
interface does slow it down a bit, but overall the seek time is much
better, and the transfer speed is also pretty good.

I was thinking if a database that fit into a reasonably cheap amount
of RAM (< 8 GB) was hosted on such a chip, there could be significant
performance gains that would make RAID 5 look slow.

You would want to GBAK pretty often to a real hard drive, but I would
be interested if anyone has something similar working.

Adam