And old is new again :). The ratio of ram to disk cost has historically varied wildly. The pendulum will come around again in a few years when huge SSD's are cheap.
I have a feeling with multi terabyte SSD's at cheaper prices we'll be shuffling all our data back to "disk" again :).
I have a feeling with multi terabyte SSD's at cheaper prices we'll be shuffling all our data back to "disk" again :).