What this is?

[systech]

what this is?

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/hard_drives/RAM_Drive/Gigabyte/I-RAM/

 

[dave87]

The iRam uses memory (ddr iirc) as a solid state storage system - ie a small C drive for ultra fast loading times

 

[Ham]

Thats a PCI card that you skick ram on it and it turns it into a solid state hard drive. Basicly an expensive, un-nessicary waste of ram.

Yet quite a cool idea.

I think.

Edit: Dam you dave. 1 min differeance

 

[dave87]

Edit: Dam you dave. 1 min differeance

heheh, better luck next time

 

[Raven]

Thats a PCI card that you skick ram

its not a traditional pci card, it only uses the pci slot to draw power from which atleast i feel is a bad way of design.

could easily have been made to fit in a floppy or harddrive cage too with just an additional power cable.

but would love to have 2 of them in raid 0, get speeds well over 220mbyte/s and access time of less than 10ns.

no harddrive in the world can beat that.

 

[Ham]

Does it plug into the PCI slot?

Yes

Its a PCI card

 

[Raging]

Yep ham is right,since it uses a pci slot it is effectively a pci card just like a soundcard etc.

It may be true that it only draws power from the pci slot i am not sure tbh

its a crock of donkey mess imo

I for one would have no use or see the point in having only 4gb worth of storage even if it is really fast,you can get flash drives upto that and they can be accessed quickly and are portable

For instance i could use my 4gb nano to cart around files if i wanted as far as the pc is concerned its a removable drive

Cheers.

 

[Raven]

I never said it wanst a pci card...

 

[Raging]

its not a traditional pci card

did i miss that?

 

[Raven]

did i miss that?

exactly where in that sentence do i say it isnt a pci card ???

a traditional pci card must have a pci slot to work.

this iram doesnt need a pci slot to work, its quite easily converted to use other power sources.

that is something you cant do with a traditional pci card.

 

[FragTek]

If you want something awesome to read up on, check out the i-RAM2... The second generation i-RAM has a lot of extra features that the first one lacked and basically needed to be something even considerable for most people.

This is a great invention for benchers as the bandwidth, access speeds, transfer speeds, etc all whip any conventional HD in the booty.

 

[Raven]

have not read aboyt i-ram2 but ddrdrive i could think of buying.

uses a pcie 1x slot and doesnt use up one sata as i-ram does.

 

[twisted5]

Too bad everything I can find on the I-Ram2 is in a different language that I can't speak or read Any good links that you know of Frag?

 

[twisted5]

Scratch that...found a few. I need to learn to spell gigabyte correctly