Re: Interesting read on SCM upending software and hardware architecture

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:13:33PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jan  7, 2016 at 02:30:06PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2874238 discusses how modern
> > Storage Class Memory (SCM), such as PCIe SSD and NVDIMMs are
> > completely upending every assumption made about storage. To put
> > this in perspective, you can now see storage latency that is
> > practically on-par with things like lock acquisition[1].
> 
> How is this different from Fusion I/O devices, which have been
> around for years?

Price.

As these things come down in price, it'll start being more and more
reasonable to treat rotating media as exotic.

Cheers,
David.
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