Hi,

In a lot of the system I can think off a small portion of the data is accessed very frequently and a large percentage of the data is very rarely accessed. An example would be typical email store. Directories of the mail store are read very frequently however once an email is read and responded to they typically are infrequently read again.

Are there any systems out there that could would use Solid state disks as the active storage and then you could use something like a NAS or SAN to use as the "slow archive storage".

This would permit one to give a much higher performance with and serve more users and have cheaper and slower NAS/SAN backing the system.

Pardon my ignorance if what I am asking is common place out there but I've not seen this. Does what I am suggesting make sense?

Regards, Maren.

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