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According to Burleson Consulting the standard platter based disks we currently use in most corporate America IT shops are some going to become a thing of the past. As we all know the prices of RAM and flash disks are continually falling making this technology affordable and feasible. They are predicting that within a relatively short period of time the majority of Oracle databases with be running entirely on sold-state disks. Leaving only backups to physical I/O writes from the solid-state-disks.

As of September 2007, the price of 100 gigabytes of SSD is less then $90,000, which means that RAM-based SSD is now affordable even for smaller databases. Larger Oracle databases can utilize RAM SAN-500, which offers up to two terabytes of fast cached SSD for an astonishing $150 per gigabyte.

As disk and RAM prices continue to fall at an astonishing rate, many Oracle shops are removing their I/O bottlenecks with RAM disk, solid-state flash memory which can read and write data hundreds of times faster then the old-fashioned spinning platters from the 1960’s.

It’s important not to confuse the PC-based flash technology (like PC flash drives) with the industrial-strength SSD that is used for Oracle databases. The SSD used for

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