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“The RamSan drive has seriously ludicrous access times — usually in the neighborhood of 15 microseconds, 250 times faster than your garden-variety hard drive for mere mortals. Further, it’s got up to 50,000 random I/Os per second per single-ported controller, which is more than 100 times quicker than regular off-the-shelf drives…” (from Engadget)

Team this up with some serious CPU-Powerhouse over Gb-Lan and you’d have one serious database server… cache that ;)