Gigabyte I-Ram Review

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
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

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited July 2005
    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.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    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
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited July 2005
    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 :)
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2005
    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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