There was a discussion about this about 2 months ago. See the archives.
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:02:26PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> I thought this might be interesting, not the least due to the extremely low
> price ($150 + the price of regular DIMMs):
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050907/index.html
>
> Anybody know a good reason why you can't put a WAL on this, and enjoy a hefty
> speed boost for a fraction of the price of a traditional SSD? (Yes, it's
> SATA, not PCI, so the throughput is not all that impressive -- but still,
> it's got close to zero seek time.)
>
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