[rescue] Vaxen?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 27, George Adkins wrote:
> >   It wouldn't actually be all that difficult to do.  There would be a
> > performance issue...core is slow (~1uS), and since reads are
> > destructive, every read is a read followed by a write.
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty slow compared to 3.5 for a 15,000 rpm scsi disk...
> 
> I think that it's performance would still stomp the poo out of any 
> conventional rotating disk subsystem.

  I think the key there is to make it *wide*.

     -Dave

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