Gigabyte I-RAM update???

[lukek]

whats the deal with the Gigabyte I-ram...can't find a retailer that actually has them on-hand.

[I(illa Bee]

gigbyte seem to love comming up with cool ideas, and even makeing the product sometimes, but I have yet to ever see them mass produce anything other than mid range mobos...


like there ESP power? came out, but did nothing

How about there quad SLI mobo???

now this? Gigabyte I-ram

[Ockie]

gigbyte seem to love comming up with cool ideas, and even makeing the product sometimes, but I have yet to ever see them mass produce anything other than mid range mobos...


like there ESP power? came out, but did nothing

How about there quad SLI mobo???

now this? Gigabyte I-ram


Quad SLI was a glimpse of whats comming... and its not going to be just gigabyte


I-Ram.. cool concept but it isn't great.. very limited by the sata speeds.... rather create your own ram drive.

[aug1516]

I don't know where it is either and it's actually quite frustrating. They sent out quite a few review units and then nothing happened. I have not even seen it for pre-order anywhere.

[dirtydr]

Looks like there will be another contender in the budget ramdrive marketplace within the next 6 weeks. HyperDrive III (http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/products.htm#hyperosHDIIproduct)

[unhappy_mage]

Looks like there will be another contender in the budget ramdrive marketplace within the next 6 weeks. HyperDrive III (http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/products.htm#hyperosHDIIproduct)
Gee, and only $700. I'll pass, thanks.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=150072&tm=33)

[rodsfree]

Looks like there will be another contender in the budget ramdrive marketplace within the next 6 weeks. HyperDrive III (http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/products.htm#hyperosHDIIproduct)


BUDGET!!!!! :eek:

$698.25 + S&H + whatever you plan to spend for DDR.

If I had that kind of budget I'd be a happy man.....with a 4 Raptor RAID 10 array that is a lot bigger and faster. (due to the PATA SATA bus limitations)

When they drop to $50.00 unpopulated.....then I might get one.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/2172.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=2172)

[dirtydr]

Gee, and only $700. I'll pass, thanks.

Well its a helluva lot better than the $3000 4GB rocket drive (http://www.cenatek.com/store/category.cfm?Category=15). I'll pass too but I'm glad to see these type of products coming out <$1000. As time goes on they will continue to get cheaper and in the end we as consumers will 'win'.

[RavenD]

Looks like there will be another contender in the budget ramdrive marketplace within the next 6 weeks. HyperDrive III (http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/products.htm#hyperosHDIIproduct)
What the hell were they thinking when they decided to put this on the pata interface? SATA 3.0gb/s would allow for much higher transfer rates.

[dirtydr]

What the hell were they thinking when they decided to put this on the pata interface? SATA 3.0gb/s would allow for much higher transfer rates.

Indeed. According to this (http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/05/hyperos_dram_hard_drive_on_the_block/index.html) the new revision will come with both sata (150 :( )& pata connectors.

[unhappy_mage]

Jeez, the one place where sata 3.0 would make a difference, and they don't implement it... :(

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=150072&tm=33)

[dracop]

I so need something like this. Even at $150+mem its tempting. Sometimes, I feel like throwing my HDD out a window and I have a Raptor. In all honesty, the RAM is dirt cheap, so you coudl probably put a loaded 8 GB (2xRAID 0 I-RAM) together for like $900 (the differences in memoery speeds would be inconqsequential; you could use dirt cheap ram so long as the sticks were big). I wonder how the performance would measure with a weaker vid card and a HDD made out of ram versus spending the cash on two top of the line SLI graphics cards. HDD have not improved anywhere near as much as memory/CPU/GPUs have; we are still using the same basic techs we were 15 years ago while everything else has underwent radical redesigns. When I build my new systme next year I will look at this. 2x in RAID 0 will prob do much better than the H3 since it can use more of the bandwidth and since its would theoretically be cheaper. Just think how fast and easy video/graphics editing would be with this; even large, heavy duty files would likely be fast and smooth to work with. Oh, and my vid games should enjoy a "fringe benefit" as wlel hehe. Hopefully the [H] can get one of these soon and do a full hardware review with OS/Page file, and applications (incl. games) loaded on one. I know at the very high end of computers (large, commercial servers, supercomputers, DoD decryption, etc.) they use Ram disks so if configured for it, should deliver much more performance.

THey are selling it from a few foreign e-tailers (off a Google search), hopefully we see thsi concept develoepd more.

[I(illa Bee]

with a 4 Raptor RAID 10 array that is a lot bigger and faster.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/2172.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=2172)


even with the bus limitTIONs im sure its still faster than 4 raptors in raID 1+0, PROLLy even faster than 4 in RAID 0...

still that too much damm money for nothing..

[rodsfree]

even with the bus limitTIONs im sure its still faster than 4 raptors in raID 1+0, PROLLy even faster than 4 in RAID 0...

still that too much damm money for nothing..

Yeah....on a single SATA connection it would be faster.
But with 4 Raptors you've got 4 SATA connections to pull the data through.

Pull up HDTach and it has some stored numbers and graphs of RAID 0 with 2 and 4 Raptors, for comparasions.

I'm just saying what I'd do with that amount of money.
Or an 7800 GTX SLI setup would be in the same $ ballpark.


http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/2172.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=2172)