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Jim Administrator 
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Zero Latency is as of now a buzz term but I've dreamed about it for a couple years now... I knew it was possible and it will soon become reality. Servers always have one big bottleneck... a turntable with an arm that swings back and forth looking for the right array of ones and zeros. Commonly called a hard drive. Early hard drives were 10 and 20M. Yes M and not G. It is not uncommon for even home computers to have 2 to 4 gigs of memory on a stick. Processors with more L2 cache respond way quicker than lets say a celeron or sempron. So why not replace the hard drive with a row of sticks of ram? It makes the difference in speed of a computer like the difference of flying from New York to California -VS- driving in a car. Since there is no moving parts, they last much longer with a potential of never needing replaced. This will take server technology a leap forward in reliability and speed, something it has needed for 10 years. So hang on to your monitors, the internet will be faster by Christmas for sure. And at the same time you will be able to pick up computers on e-bay already 5 times faster than what you are sitting in front of now for a couple hundred bucks- Jim
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TVDinner Getting Fatter By The Minute 
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very interesting - any links to related stories about this technology?
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Jim Administrator
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Most of the articles I found were a little geeky... here are two decent ones: http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=1008 http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/04/Sun-aims-to-flood-servers-with-solid-state-drives_1.html Looks like Liquid web has jumped on the band wagon as an early contender in this game which IMO is a big mistake being that SSD's cost substantially more than even 15K SATA's and the technology is in it's infancy. There are always bugs to be worked out in any new systems, waiting is wise sometimes. You will not be able to enjoy solid state servers at Data 1 till the middle of next year and I'm sure plans will be a little more money. The speed will be worth it and I plan on being my first customer  .
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TVDinner Getting Fatter By The Minute
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wonder why they think so long? Most computer components drop in price pretty quickly and multiple companies jump into the game offering similar products.Barring datacenters, the adoption of flash storage has been slow in the enterprise due to high cost per gigabyte. A 128GB SSD costs $460, or $3.58 per gigabyte, compared to $60 for a 160GB hard drive, said Krishna Chander, senior analyst at iSuppli. It will take three to four years for SSDs to come to parity with hard drives on price, Chander said.
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wingnutter Forever Learning 
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That's interesting stuff Jim. Will Ultras hosting benefit from this in the shorter term?
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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Whoops, sorry Jim forget that. I just read the next year bit. Count me in for that as well.
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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TVDinner wrote: wonder why they think so long? Most computer components drop in price pretty quickly and multiple companies jump into the game offering similar products. I would have expected this to be available sooner. Many customers will want the faster speed even if it costs more.
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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I just seen this bit in the second link; "A number of companies recently announced in the SSD storage products. Intel on Tuesday introduced an 8GB SSD and said it would make a 16GB SSD available in the fourth quarter of this year. Seagate last week said it would offer SSDs to top-tier companies starting next year." 8 and 16GB seems rather small for a server, or a I reading this wrong?
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John Floyd License Holder 
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Also Will The Current High Speed Internet Connections Keep Up With The SSD Servers? Looks Like to Me That A Change in Technology is needed there also.
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John Floyd License Holder
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Just Noticed That 128gb SSD's are now below $400 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=4016&name=128GB Haven't seen any approaching 1Tb in size yet.
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Jim Administrator
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Give it another year, it will be standard issue in all servers, 2 years and all home systems will have them. I wouldn't know what to do with a T. High speed connections are climbing already, there will always be a bottle neck somewhere. Open one pipe bigger, another one busts!
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John Floyd License Holder
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As Soon As systems Get where they run reasonably fast they start Talking about expanding them to 64, 128 or even 256 bit software and processors. Never any end to it
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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That's it John, technology never stops. All we get is drip fed with a bit every so often.
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