Gigabyte i-RAM 2 Info

scorchio

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The i-RAM is one of the most interesting product that Gigabyte has developed this year. Gigabyte for the first time has unveiled the specifications of their upcoming i-RAM 2 . The i-RAM 2 will be using DDR2 memories instead of DDR1 and the data transfer interface is SATA 3Gb/s double of the current SATA 1.5 Gb/s. It will be externally housed with by means of an external case or fitted into the 5.25" bay with eSATA interfaces. The number of memory slots are expected to double to 8 and you can have up to 16GB max memory. The expected announcement of i-RAM 2 is targeted for February next year.
 
Any info on how it retains the data by giving the RAM power? Is it moving away from using a battery or not? For me that was the one major issue the product had in the first place.

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As soon as the system's power cord is pulled or the power supply unit is completely turned off, the battery comes into use and the 16-hour countdown begins. Those who frequently use their computer or leave it in standby mode when turning it off (simple shutdown without turning off the power unit, which we would describe as the rule), would only really need the battery during power outages. i-Ram should survive downtime between the end of one workday and the beginning of the next with no problem.

We see finding replacement batteries as somewhat problematic since we were not able to assign the model used to any device so far. It certainly would have been more practical to use a battery already in wide use or even a couple of standard rechargeable batteries.
 
Sounds better than the old one. Seeing as HyperOS didnt get back to me, they can live without my money. My attention is now on Gigabyte.
 
Nice find scorchio, was also looking at this and felt these little extracts would be worth a mention -

"bandwidth of the interface at just under 130 MB/s as measured, the access times of just 0.05 ms or 50 ns are very impressive."

"i-RAM is fine and dandy, but how would the performance look if twice the SATA bandwidth were available? We tried this out by simply using two i-RAM cards in the RAID 0. The access time scarcely changed at all - it doesn't go much quicker in this order of magnitude, after all. The transfer rate, however, climbed even higher and easily surpassed the magical 200 MB/s mark."

Looking at the results of this put up against a Raptor, which is shown off for being one of the fastest hard drives for home PCs, it becomes an old person who's very scared of crossing the road going really slow. Instance -

Raptor (74Gb) access time - 8.8ms

i-RAM access time - 0.05ms

Windows Boot Time

Gigabyte i-RAM (4GB) - 9.12s

Western Digital Raptor (74GB)- 14.06s

Just look at that!!!! It's insanely fast!!!

I'm getting one :D
 
Defffo one for the PCMark fraternity - give those RAID boys a run for their money (as in wipe the snot of your nose with em) ;)
 
Give me a equal set-up and we'll show em who's DA BOSS!!!

I am sooooo close the them already they'd be no2's everywhere knowing I'd got me mits on one ;)

That being the case 'IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!!!'

TEAM EPUK 4EVA!!
 
Yes K404 it does seem a better package and i would imagine a little cheaper which is allways nice,but don't quote me on that!
 
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