Re: High performance random-access disk operations (Raidframe?)

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On May 11, 2010, at 03:26, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Chris Ross wrote:
> >   So, I'm building a machine that I want to have a filesystem that
> > performs very well for [mostly reads] random access to random parts  
> > of
> > data files.  I don't expect as many directory operations as file  
> > read/
> > write operations.
>
> If you don't need huge amounts of space, consider an SSD.

  Well, I was thinking about a few hundreds of gigabytes, which is  
large but not huge.  But the bigger issue is that I already have  
hundreds of gigabytes of spinning disk, and this is not a project with  
any budget.  So, SSD's are just too expensive.

  Although, I must admit, now that you mention it, it does sound like  
a fantastic idea.  I'll start dreaming of cheap or free SSD drives,  
now.  ;-)

                     - Chris