IRam Speeds Windows XP Start Up
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Birmingham, UK
Giga-byte's IRam is a PC add-in card with four DDR DRAM slots that's designed to be used as a PC drive. Because the IRam uses DRAM rather than a hard disk to store information, data can be retrieved from the drive up to 60 times faster than is possible with a hard drive, according to Giga-byte, which showed the board at the Computex exhibition in Taipei this week.
Source: PCWorldFor users who are tired of sitting around and waiting for their Windows-based PCs to boot up, they can install Windows on the IRam and use that as the drive to start the system more quickly, Handley says. When the card is used in this way, starting Windows XP is a matter of seconds, rather than a minute or more, he says.
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Only thing I can see is that it can only store for 12 hours without power, making long outages and shipping a big problem. I would like to see one on a database though..
I beleive it uses SATA, rather than the pci port to communicate.