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Gigabyte I-Ram Review

Gigabyte I-Ram Review

Anandtech reviews the Gigabyte I-Ram Ram based Hard Drive Card

The performance benefits of solid state storage have always been tempting. With no moving parts, reliability is improved tremendously, and at the same time, random accesses are no longer limited by slow and difficult to position read/write heads.

Recognizing the allure of solid state storage, especially to performance-conscious enthusiast users, Gigabyte went about creating the first affordable solid state storage device, and they called it i-RAM.

The I-Ram needs some improvement (8GB+, SATAII or PCIe interface) but it’s an intriguing first effort

Source: Anandtech

Comments

  1. entropy
    entropy Wow. Maybe it's just me, but was that kind of a let-down? I mean, I was expecting this to be the be-all, end-all. But it's not as great as you'd think, mostly because the interface is (gasp), slow. Huh.
  2. shwaip
    shwaip
    entropy wrote:
    Wow. Maybe it's just me, but was that kind of a let-down? I mean, I was expecting this to be the be-all, end-all. But it's not as great as you'd think, mostly because the interface is (gasp), slow. Huh.

    and it costs 3x as much as they said it would at computex
  3. Armo
    Armo solid sate ram drives arent anythng new, they made them a long time ago, you can still buy the cards that fit into PCI slots and take up to 8 sitcks of ram to form a SSRD, they used to run about $1000 per gig. revolutionary in a day whare a voodoo2 was king :)
  4. Omega65
    Omega65 If they're going to charge $150 make a 8 Slot card with a 4gb per slot limit with a SATA-II interface - then you would have something.

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