Originally posted by Sysman
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Previously on "SSD drives slower than hard disk drives"
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Originally posted by doodab View PostRamdrives are still useful, modern solaris puts /tmp in ram by default. They generally aren't persistent though.
And they were persistent across reboots if you wanted them to be.
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Originally posted by stek View PostDual U320 controllers with 15k disks, nowt better than the machine-gun rattle of a loaded SCSI disk and the OS just not noticing.....
This SATA crap sits here with the red light on almost permanently and slowing everything else down.
Grrrr.....
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostDidn't you ever have "ramdrive.sys" installed on your old DOS PCs?
Turbo Pascal used to fly!
(Mind you it was fast anyway)
Oh and did you know that there was still some of Philipe Kahn's original assembler code in the Delphi compiler?
[michael caine]Not a lot of people know that[/michael caine]
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostThe search facility is just fine. It is you that are the problem. You couldn't find the gonads on a Bull!!!Originally posted by Churchill View PostBollocks, the search facility works just fine for the non-morons within the congregation.Originally posted by pacharan View PostTry searching for SSD then. Also, every search facility THAT I HAVE WRITTEN in various projects over the years provides the user with the capability to search for a phrase by allowing the user to place the search term in quotation marks.
In fairness to everyone else, Pacharan is still a bit of a twunt really.
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Originally posted by stek View PostNobody mentioned lappies!!Originally posted by doodab View Post
Turbo Pascal used to fly!
(Mind you it was fast anyway)
Oh and did you know that there was still some of Philipe Kahn's original assembler code in the Delphi compiler?
[michael caine]Not a lot of people know that[/michael caine]
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostWell its model name is "X-MP" so that should give you a clue.The DD-39 and DD-49 hard drives each stored 1.2 GB with 5.9 MB/s and 9.8 MB/s transfer rates, respectively. Optional solid state drives were available with 256, 512 or 1024 MB capacities with transfer rates of 100 to 1,000 MB/s per channel.[1]
Cray X-MP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dual U320 controllers with 15k disks, nowt better than the machine-gun rattle of a loaded SCSI disk and the OS just not noticing.....
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ExtremeFFS FFS! Sounds like a marketing article by Sandisk. And 2 years late as well.
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