[rescue] RE: VSIMMs in SS/20 ("one VSIMM good, two VSIMMs better" - sorry George Orwell)

[Brian Hechinger]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:51:08PM -0600, james at foonly.com wrote:
> 
> FYI, MemoryX has a great deal on SS10/SS20 presto NVSIMMs:
> 
> http://www.memoryx.net/5012001.html
> 
> At $21/ea the speed boost is well worth it.  They also have 1MB (not 8MB,
> as indicated) SC2000 presto SIMMs for $8/ea.

woo!!!  that's cool.  can't wait to get one!!

> Using NFSv3 at both ends obviates some of the need for presto, but it will
> still make a noticable difference in I/O latency.

for $21 it should make enough of a difference to be worth the costs.  we'll
see.

couple questions:

do they come in larger than 2mb sticks?  2mb should be more than enough, but
if they have bigger ones i'd rather have one of them of course. :)

anyone know about this thing and Solaris 8?

where do i get the Prestoserve software?

cheers,

-brian