25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
7:49 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 25 Sep 2008 at 17:31, Jim Leonard wrote:
As a matter of fact, IBM's new blades have a flash socket (more like
a SODIMM than CF form factor) for boot media. VMware has a new variant
of ESX Server that's designed to run from flash.
Doc
All of this is mitigated by using IBM Microdrives
instead of solid-state CF.
Back to a old query--will a Microdrive stand up to months of
continuous 24x7 use? My impression was that they were useful only as
intermittent-use devices.
It seems that if flash was ready for primetime, the server farm
operators would jump at the chance to employ them, given that power
consumption is a *big* expense for them (both for system power and
the HVAC that's needed).
But they're not jumping, are they?