Fastest hard drive out there

jdrake90 · 01-28-06, 02:16 PM

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/20...m/index.x?pg=1

Check it out... found this story on www.digg.com....

Interesting concept, although I don't like the fact that you can lose data if you unplug your comp.

Jdrake90

dicecca112 · 01-28-06, 02:28 PM

posted and been talked about a ton

DDR-PIII · 01-28-06, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jdrake90

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/20...m/index.x?pg=1

Check it out... found this story on www.digg.com....

Interesting concept, although I don't like the fact that you can lose data if you unplug your comp.

Jdrake90

wouldnt lose any data, it does get power VIA the PCI slot, but it also does have an onboard BATT, burrently its limited but the speed of sata, only 150MB/sec, they plan to use it on SATAII AND PCI-E, PCI-E Meaning directly though the PCI-E interface getting 8GB/sec is it ?, not to bad all around through, considering you could boot to your desktop in 4 seconds flat. and heh lets remember you can alsways run the sata versions in RAID 0.

EvilCloudStrife · 01-28-06, 03:46 PM

thats not really a hard drive FYI

Revivalist · 01-28-06, 08:41 PM

4 Gigs max? And an average cost of about $500 for that much memory?

. . . Or a RAid 0 array with a wopping 8Gigs for $1000?

. . .

I think it's still gonna be a while until solid state can replace current hard drives for the common user. Especially since the prolonged read and write speed of the I-RAM was hardly faster than the current high performance HDDs. That was rather surprising.

DDR-PIII · 01-28-06, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Revivalist

4 Gigs max? And an average cost of about $500 for that much memory?

. . . Or a RAid 0 array with a wopping 8Gigs for $1000?

. . .

I think it's still gonna be a while until solid state can replace current hard drives for the common user. Especially since the prolonged read and write speed of the I-RAM was hardly faster than the current high performance HDDs. That was rather surprising.

yeah it is quite $$$, but actually they also got one that will take 2GB ddr modules, so 16GB

8xRAID 0

Soichiro · 01-28-06, 10:36 PM

Yay, that would make it about $2000 for 16GB. That's even stupider than spending $300 on a 150GB Raptor, especially at this point with the limitations of SATA150.

Bios24 · 01-28-06, 10:54 PM

It has its uses. I was seriously thinking about buying one, then I saw that they were $150 without ram. Last I heard they were going to be $50, but I guess that was just a rumor.

This does have some serious applications though. My first thought was to have a dedicated page file drive. This could also be used for a photoshop scratch drive, or any other ram-intensive program. If you had a game you really like you could probably even do that. Although some games are larger than 4gb now.

Also- you wouldn't need uber-fast ram to fill this. An article said that even DDR200 wouldn't saturate the bandwidth. You could probably find 1gb sticks for as low as $50, making the 4gb drive a total of $350. 8gb Raid 0 would be $700, 16gb Raid 0 $1400. Is this a little much for a 16gb drive? Yes. Would anything else on the market match the speed and latency? Not even close.

michaelpi · 01-29-06, 01:10 AM

its so stupid if you lose power on that eveything goes and its only 4 gigs so there is no point for that now

tom10167 · 01-29-06, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Soichiro

That's even stupider than spending $300 on a 150GB Raptor, especially at this point with the limitations of SATA150.

Yeah, especially considering RAIDing crappy drives is even faster than a Raptor!!1

Vyncennt · 01-29-06, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by michaelpi

its so stupid if you lose power on that eveything goes and its only 4 gigs so there is no point for that now

Read the article. I has a 10 hour Lithium-Ion battery in case of power-loss.

Vyncennt · 01-29-06, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by tom10167

Yeah, especially considering RAIDing crappy drives is even faster than a Raptor!!1

No. It's not.

josh478 · 01-29-06, 10:42 AM

wow, thats the biggest waste of money EVER. you could buy two sata 500gb hd's and run them in raid. definately wont even think twice about this pos.

tom10167 · 01-29-06, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Vyncennt

No. It's not.

Note the "1" at the end of the post, I was being entirely sarcastic.

Who would want an incredibly fast HDD? That's dumb.

Anyways, I just bought a $500 watercooling system to get an extra 300Mhz out of my CPU.

Amarkarian · 01-29-06, 12:49 PM

the future is solid state but, ram prices have to go down a lof for this to be worth it

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Bios24 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Kansas City, MO	It has its uses. I was seriously thinking about buying one, then I saw that they were $150 without ram. Last I heard they were going to be $50, but I guess that was just a rumor. This does have some serious applications though. My first thought was to have a dedicated page file drive. This could also be used for a photoshop scratch drive, or any other ram-intensive program. If you had a game you really like you could probably even do that. Although some games are larger than 4gb now. Also- you wouldn't need uber-fast ram to fill this. An article said that even DDR200 wouldn't saturate the bandwidth. You could probably find 1gb sticks for as low as $50, making the 4gb drive a total of $350. 8gb Raid 0 would be $700, 16gb Raid 0 $1400. Is this a little much for a 16gb drive? Yes. Would anything else on the market match the speed and latency? Not even close. __________________ Antec P180 - Corsair HX520W - Dell 2005fpw Opteron 165 <Currently 280x9 1.35v> DFI NF4 Ultra-D - 2gb G.Skill 3-4-4-8@250mhz 320gb+200gb Seagate - XFX 6800GS 500/1.2ghz Sound Blaster X-Fi - BA7900 5.1 Surround Thermalright XP-90C - <The Quiet Overclock> [ HEATWARE ] Last edited by Bios24; 01-28-06 at 10:59 PM.
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michaelpi Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: texas	its so stupid if you lose power on that eveything goes and its only 4 gigs so there is no point for that now __________________ dell xps gen 3 main comp pent 4 3.4 ghz 1gig ddr2 at 533mhz 250 gig sata hd with winxp ati radeon x300 sever running samba amd 2800+ oced 50% 2500mhz 160 gig ide 100 ide 1 sata 100 running centos 1 gig ddr ram
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