You should check out this paper: Disk is the new ram http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/papers/acm-viewpoint08.pdf http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/papers/acm-vie

You should check out this paper: Disk is the new ram http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/papers/acm-viewpoint08.pdf http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/papers/acm-viewpoint08.pdf It's really neat.