Gigabyte RAMDisk

[elation]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23672

Also a wickedly welcomed Gigabyte Ramdisk which should allow for some obscene PCMark HD test results. You can connect up to 16GB of DDR memory to it. Someone on the thread spoke about RAIDing two of them for a 32GB RAID-0 monster.

That's about that was written. Man running an OS and swap from a DDR ram drive! Whoa baby! :eek:

I'd love to have one.

As you'll see mentioned in replies here, there's already good conversation about this in the Memory Forum (http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92). Check out this thread over there for more info. - DL

[USMC2Hard4U]

There already is a thread about this in the Memory Forum.

[griff30]

I have always wanted a Solid State hard drive, I have used ramdisk for swapfile and video editing and there was a post I had here a while back with a solid state HDTach score that was amazing but I was told by a genius that it would not be possible to use as a boot drive. And at $80 for the board? I'll take 4.

[unhappy_mage]

This card gets really interesting when you get several and RAID them together, IMO.

Why, you ask? It lets you test the card in a bottleneck-free environment. You can be sure that the "disks" you're reading from aren't getting latency problems, so you can test whose raid5 (for example) is fastest, whose raid0 implementation is best, whatever, without putting in the caveat that the disks could be limiting the performance.

Any word on whether these support ECC or registered memory?
http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/153.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=153)

[elation]

There already is a thread about this in the Memory Forum.

Hmm didn't look there. Is it memory or is it storage... ;)

Why couldn't you boot from it? Wonder if they'll have a battery backup for it. Google said they use something similar to this because it is so much faster.

I just wish I could have a ram drive in XP that wasn't DOS based and could support a really large size. Read the old ramdrive from MS could support 32MB or so. I used to swap Unreal cache to a RAM drive. Made the game much smoother.

[sirholio]

I'd be using it for something like that myself. Loading levels in some games is a pain in the ass. This would speed it up considerably.

[elation]

I'm closing this thread. There's a lot better info and discussion over in the memory forum. Check it out. :)