Gigabyte presents DDR RAM based HDD
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 06/02/2005 08:58 PM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ] · 1127 views
Gigabyte is showing off its new IRam PCI add-in card with four memory slots at Computex. The solid-state device is designed to act as a fast hard drive with Serial ATA interface and it supports up to 4GB DDR memory. Extremely high access times are the main advantage over normal HDDs.
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FaaR Unregistered |
#61083 Posted on: 06/03/2005 01:51 AM
Extremely HIGH access times would be BAD. What they should have written is extremely LOW access times... Besides, that thing not only occupies a PCI slot, it occupies a SATA connector too. Sort of a two-in-one whammy, but in a negative sense. It should have transferred data through PCI as well, then it would have been more interesting. |
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Chicken Senior Member Posts: 311 Joined: 2002-02-11 |
#61085 Posted on: 06/03/2005 06:09 AM
Except SATA (and especially SATA2) transfer data FASTER than PCI. Which is most likely why they do it that way. |
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Don_PhrostByte Unregistered |
#61086 Posted on: 06/03/2005 08:00 AM
this will be great for serving static content to a lot of clients! |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3014 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#61087 Posted on: 06/03/2005 02:39 PM
1. is SATA faster 2. the compatibility is unmatched with such a solution its awesome that PCI only have no chance or do you know anyone with a RAM disk card ? but whith this solution anybody can own one and who uses all of his PCI slots ??? if you do so you may think about rebuilding the PC and about the PCI transfer rates .... you can easily beat it with 3 RAID 0 disks ... so it would be a wast of money to use the PCI bus .... while such a card for PCIe would make very much of sense |
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FailedCRC Unregistered |
#61088 Posted on: 06/03/2005 05:21 PM
or you could just buy 4gb of ram... |
