Okay so recently I've been looking around for something fast. Firstly, I came across using RAM as storage. The best I could find that was not horribly expensive was Gigabyte's I-ram. The first edition uses a pci slot, and supports 4x1GB of DDR 400 RAM. I will link some benchmarks, and this is obviously going to be very fast. I've seen videos of it going from windows starting to boot to desktop in 4 seconds. However, it is bottlenecked by the use of 150mbs sata, although it has access speeds of microseconds. There were plans for a second one, supporting better (perhaps more) RAM, and 300mbs sata... However, I don't think this will ever be released. Still, it sounds excellent for a game/windows. (A couple of notes though, obv. ram is volatile, and as soon as the given battery runs out, your data is lost. It is charged by your system, however. Also, I have heard of a bay mounted one as opposed to a pci version).
Through browsing of expensive stuff (I heard of rumours of some storage medium costing £7000 to £25000, although I didn't see much, and I may be lying ;p). I then came across something called the iodrive. This is the dream storage medium.
To put shortly:
800mbs Bandwidth
Access speed of microseconds
Solid State
Available from 80GB to 640GB, 1TB planned.
I don't think this has been released yet. The major downside is that it is predicted to cost £15 a gigabyte, and as the smallest one will be 80GB, this sure is not going to be cheap.
I'm seriously thinking of getting some I-ram though; costing about £65 plus 4x1GB sticks, its not horribly expensive. Some people will be put off by the small space, but put a game or your OS on it, your going to be having fun.
Through browsing of expensive stuff (I heard of rumours of some storage medium costing £7000 to £25000, although I didn't see much, and I may be lying ;p). I then came across something called the iodrive. This is the dream storage medium.
To put shortly:
800mbs Bandwidth
Access speed of microseconds
Solid State
Available from 80GB to 640GB, 1TB planned.
I don't think this has been released yet. The major downside is that it is predicted to cost £15 a gigabyte, and as the smallest one will be 80GB, this sure is not going to be cheap.
I'm seriously thinking of getting some I-ram though; costing about £65 plus 4x1GB sticks, its not horribly expensive. Some people will be put off by the small space, but put a game or your OS on it, your going to be having fun.
