A5000: no NVRAM?

[Chris Beauchamp]

> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:03:12 -0500 (EST)
> From: Ken Mandelberg <km@mathcs.emory.edu>
> Subject: Re: A5000: no NVRAM?
> To: ssa-managers@Eng.Auburn.EDU
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> > From: Chris Beauchamp <Chris.Beauchamp@Eng.Sun.COM>
> > Subject: Re: A5000: no NVRAM?
> > To: ssa-managers@Eng.Auburn.EDU
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> > 
> > A write cache can certainly positively impact an 
> > application performance.  An A5000 which delivers full potential performance 
> > (IOPS and bandwidth) with the benefits of a write cache would be pretty 
cool, 
> > huh ?  
> 
> Time for another generation of PrestoServe?

That is one way to address fast writes and this an approach that I believe the 
Netra NFS (A5000 storage) is taking.  

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