Storage
TMS puts the boot into flash
TMS has given its server flash cards the ability to boot operating systems – so servers can start up faster. The RamSan-20 and -70 are PCIe products are server flash memory cards with 450GB or 900GB respectively of fast, single-level cell NAND storage, offering up to 330,000 sustained 4K random read IOPS, 400,000 random write …
Baffled now.
I'm sorry, but I have listened to Test Match Special for years and never heard them mention hardware that wasn't made of Leather and willow.
Re: Baffled now.
I think they're referring to this "Flash": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Paget_Flashman
In particular the part: "He became an expert cricket bowler, but that was through hard effort (he needed sporting credit at Rugby School, and was afraid to play rugby football"
Re: Baffled now.
Indeed, if Aggers, Blowers and Sir Viv have rubbished it, it must be useless. Yea flash, talk nah.
Re: Baffled now.
I scan read the article & didn't see a single mention of cakes - what's going on?
