[rescue] Vaxen?

[George Adkins]

On Saturday 27 April 2002 02:30 pm, you wrote:
> On April 27, George Adkins wrote:
> > Dave?  Comments?
> > How much time/money/effort would it take to assemble a rack-full of core
> > memory and turn it into a big fat solid-state-storage-device-type system
> > with a SCSI port out the back?
>
>   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.
>

Heh,
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.

George