| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 4696.1 |  | TENNIS::KAM | Kam WWSE 714/261.4133 DTN/535.4133 IVO | Sat Jul 06 1996 12:10 | 33 | 
|  | From www.storage.digital.com, the page has this advertisement:
   Digital's New EZ3x and EZ6x Solid State Disks 
   ...for mission critical applications
From VTX IR | SU | Keyword: solid state disk
   1    24-Apr-96  Product and Service Retirements                       SU3125
   2    24-Apr-95  Product and Service Retirements                       SU1BB6
   3    10-Oct-94  HSC High Performance Software V8.4 Expands SCSI       SU1AUB
                   Support and Adds Jukeb
   4    08-Sep-94  KZPAA PCI-to-SCSI Host Bus Adapter                    SU1AON
   5    11-Jul-94  StorageWorks HSD30 Array Controller                   SU1ADN
   6    02-May-94  StorageWorks HSZ40 Array Controller                   SU14A7
   7    07-Mar-94  The StorageWorks Family Announces New BA350 Shelf     SU13Z3
                   Upgrades
   8    21-Feb-94  EZ58R SCSI Solid State Disk Now Available             SU13WC
   9    29-Nov-93  EZ5x Additional Interconnect, System, and Operating   SU13FP
                   System Support
  10    04-Oct-93  EZ5x SCSI-2 Solid State Disks Now Shipping            SU136V
  11    26-Jul-93  New StorageWorks Solutions for Digital's VAX and      SU12QI
                   Alpha AXP Systems
  12    26-Jul-93  EZ5x High Performance SCSI-2 Solid State Disks        SU12QM
  13    26-Jul-93  Storage Resources                                     SU12QT
o  #EC-N0004-45, "Solid State Disks," a comprehensive handbook
I can't help with the RAMDISK article because I can't get access to the
    QUORUM information on TIMA.
	Regards,
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| 4696.2 | DECRAM = RAMdisk | JOBURG::HARRIS |  | Sun Jul 07 1996 05:14 | 5 | 
|  |     Finally found some info ....DECram was the keyword that did the trick!
    
    Now All I need is a comparison whitepaper!
    
    Ivan
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| 4696.3 |  | SSDEVO::PARRIS | Keith, Digital Consultant | Sun Jul 07 1996 19:16 | 6 | 
|  | For most customers, the basic question is: Will the data be modified?  If not,
use DECram, because you don't care if the data goes away if the power fails or
the node crashes; you can always reload it on reboot.  If the data will be
modified, use a solid-state disk for its non-volatility.  Performance-wise, the
DECram will win hands-down, because it uses main memory and avoids the latency
of going out over some I/O bus to the solid-state disk.
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| 4696.4 | "Ram Disk is *not* an installation procedure" | JGODCL::APETERS | Let's make it happen! | Mon Jul 08 1996 03:04 | 1 | 
|  |     couldn't resist ;-)
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| 4696.5 | what will it cost me to lose these data? | WRKSYS::HOUSE | Kenny - PKO3-1/N75 - DTN 223-6720 | Mon Jul 08 1996 08:03 | 18 | 
|  |     re .3 ...
    
    > For most customers, the basic question is: Will the data be modified? 
                                                                  --------
    > If not, use DECram, because you don't care if the data goes away if the
    > power fails or the node crashes; you can always reload it on reboot. 
    Actually, the question probably should be "are the data on the RAM disk
    recoverable at a reasonable cost?"  If you can reload raw data and
    rerun the job in a short time, this may be acceptable to most
    customers.  I wouldn't do data entry or data capture to a RAM disk, nor
    would I run a month-long job (that my boss was waiting for) without
    some sort of non-volatile checkpointing.
    
    As Keith pointed out, it does make sense to keep data in memory for
    performance.
    
    -- Kenny House
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| 4696.6 | Ramdisk: I like that name | INDYX::ram | Ram Rao, PBPGINFWMY | Mon Jul 08 1996 10:51 | 5 | 
|  | Re: Ramdisk Product and Performance specs wanted urge
I am honored that Digital would choose to name a product after me :-)
Ram
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