Sandy Drobic wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2008-11-20 at 13:13 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
The sad fact is that hdd speed, especially access time has not evolved with the same speed as other parts of pc hardware. We need hard disks with two or more independent heads. :-)~~
Nope, the real solution is not to use hard disk at all anymore. I am eagerly waiting for the time when SSDs are becoming reliable, cheap and fast enough with enough capacity to be used as replacement. It shouldn't take that long anymore.
Recent models offer 200+ mb/s speed. In 3-4 years I expect that most servers come equipped with SSDs.
Many years ago, I saw a solid state "disk" from Amdahl (IIRC). It used 256K standard DRAM memory, which was quite a lot back in those days. We also had some head per track disk drives (again 256 - 512 KB) that were fast enough to be used for "overlays". Overlays predated virtual memory and were loaded into memory as needed. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org