1GB PC3200 Ram is being used as a SATA drive. Some pretty impressive results in there with lots of photos. Language is not english though. Gigabyte i-RAM HDD Score - 57699 XP Startup - 102.193 MB/.s Application Loading - 100.503 MB/s File Copying - 118.981 MB/s General HDD Usage - 90.620 MB/s VS Seagate 80GB 7200rpm 8MB Cache HDD Score - 4122 XP Startup - 7.348 MB/s Application Loading - 5.918 MB/s File Copying - 31.152 MB/s General HDD Usage - 4.915 MB/s HKEPC
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Gigabyte i-RAM [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Seagate 80GB 7200rpm 8MB Cache[/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]HDD Score [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]57699 [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]4122[/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]XP Startup [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]102.193 MB/.s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]7.348 MB/s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Application Loading [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]100.503 MB/s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]5.918 MB/s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]File Copying [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]118.981 MB/s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]31.152 MB/s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]General HDD Usage [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]90.620 MB/s [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]4.915 MB/s[/font]
, It's like 10 times better than the real HD holy crap, they should pit it up against a 15k RPM HD instead though.
thats crazy but does the data actually stay on the bloody thing? How can it keep the OS loaded on it? MAN that would be great to have a ram drive like that. You could run XP off of it and then have everything else on your regular hard drive. OR BETTER YET!!! You could totally like have games on it (albiet not many) and they'd run freakin fast too. man the possibilites. Too bad RAM is so bloody expensive.
The black package on the left hand side of the PCB is a rechargeable battery package. That should do the job nicely.
That's cool! I wouldn't trust my OS to it, but game data files and other things that tend to flog (and are easily replaced) would be so freaking sweet to stick on that once they do larger than 1gb. Even 1gb could be pretty handy though..And ram isn't really expensive? Compared to HDD's sure, but that's apples to oranges.
Mwahahha!!! Phear the $55 AUS for a 512mb stick!! this isnt really news for me, ive been running a ram-drive for a few months now
Battery's only good for 12 hours. To maintain it for longer you have to keep the residual power that runs through the PC unless the power is REALLY shut off (power strip, switch on back) going.
now you could just get some cheapy CL3 ram and place it in that. I don't think that memory timings would really much matter as data storage as opposed to data transfer. and if you want to compare apples to oranges, HDDs are MUCH cheaper than RAM any day of the week....think about it....how much would it cost to have 80Gb of ram vs. one 80Gb HDD. It would be ALOT cheaper to purchase the HDD. But like i said, that's if you want to compare apples to oranges .
This AnandTech forum post has a bunch more of the test translated (or summarized): http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1627186
it would be nice to have, but too expensive for me we might have harddisks like this in the future using new types of memory. for example mram: http://www.mram-info.com/introduction.html
Necrosis, I think you're right. I kinda have a problem w/ having to leave residual power in the thing all the time (since the battery only lasts 12 hrs) to maintain the "image", but I would def. be interested in seeing if putting the swap file on it would speed things up, and how much.
i agree! while you would not get as big a boost for a specific like a game install(&that might be debatable) it boost the speed of everything. this would give you the most bang for the $$ & negate the worry of possible data loss.
if i had an extra sata connect...:tears: depends on wether you count zardon getting it for testing or zardon actually getting it. though i gues that could be one & the same.
