Hyper OS and its physical RAM drive

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stuzzie29

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HAS ANYYYYYYYBODY, thats anyone heard of anyone gaming through the new 2004 hyper os xp HYPERDRIVE. As we know the bottleneck in gaming is also the hard disk. Playing games with this should be awesome yet only really big enough for one or mabe 2 of the latest games. If you know anyone thats benchmarked or tried anything like this please post below.

Try This link:
scroll down to the "HyperOs XP HyperDrive II"
HYPER OS PRODUCT SPECS PAGE
 
Pretty cool, overpriced though. For that, I'd just build a system with 4 gigs of ram and set up a 3 GB RAM drive for my maps. Of course you'd have to have it backed up to a physical hard drive in case it crashed, but big deal.

Still, it's pretty cool.
 
There is software that will allocate large amounts of RAM for virtual disk storage and copy a part of your hard disk to it when you boot... That is probably a better (cheaper and more efficient) solution.
 
well its a cool thing but your right, SATA would work a million times better.
dont ask me ask them, probably compatibility issues for people with older machines?
 
Originally posted by stuzzie29
well its a cool thing but your right, SATA would work a million times better.
dont ask me ask them, probably compatibility issues for people with older machines?
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It uses an ATA33 bus because the DRAM itself is probably limited to that bandwidth.
 
Originally posted by ’m‚³‚ñ
It uses an ATA33 bus because the DRAM itself is probably limited to that bandwidth.
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Hmm, perhaps... But couldn't they "RAID 0" the RAM to increase the maximum bandwidth of the card?
 
Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
Hmm, perhaps... But couldn't they "RAID 0" the RAM to increase the maximum bandwidth of the card?
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Yeah, it would be possible. But they would need a controller for every 2 chips on the board, or every 4, or something like that. That would send the cost through the roof.

Plus, you would run into other problems. I don't know what exactly, but ther's something in my mind saying that there would be problems. Ah, you'd need an independant memory controller for each bank of DRAM, basically, each 'half' of the RAID 0 stripes. :p
 
Originally posted by Black Morty Rackham
Ahhh, okay... :p
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You could, however, buy two of those thigns and a RAID card, and get double transfer rates. Get four of 'em, make a super RAID. That would more than kick ass.

I don't like the fact that they will lose data if unpowered for more than a certain time, like if you're moving the system. :( Hmmm... RAID 1, just get a little hdd and mirror it. You'd lose the data on the DRAM drive, but you could restor it from the mirror. That would be effective for LANs, but that would also add weight, power consumption, and a lot of cost to a rig. Plus, after you restor it from RAID 1, you would have to kill off the RAID and remove the HDD to keep good transfer rates.

Also... In a Striped format, losing one module would have double effect on the impact. A striped format would be great for transfer rates, but that would be about it. The drives life would be much more limited, and the cost would go waaaay up. :(

Do they make SCSI versions of these? I'd love to buy 9 of these suckers and make one massive RAID 0 drive with some pretty decent transfer rates... :p That would kick ass.
 
That RAM disk is pretty pointless.

Four Seagate Cheetas (73Gb, 15.3k RPM) in RAID0 max at 320mb/s, and their avg. speed isn't much less.

Texas Memory Systems make REAL RAM disks. 2 GB/s transfer rate, (Fibre LAN). Some NICS support networrk drive booting, so running one of them in a machine wouldn't be a problem.
 
Originally posted by 3lite
That RAM disk is pretty pointless.

Four Seagate Cheetas (73Gb, 15.3k RPM) in RAID0 max at 320mb/s, and their avg. speed isn't much less.

Texas Memory Systems make REAL RAM disks. 2 GB/s transfer rate, (Fibre LAN). Some NICS support networrk drive booting, so running one of them in a machine wouldn't be a problem.
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Try running four of these RAM disks in RAID 0. Gesh, it would probably cost about the same int he end anyway. :rolleyes: *note: I've been looking for SCSI disks, but they're so freaking expensive for just about any capacity, so my above statement about cost was a bit biased. :p*

As for Fiber, that's some damn expensive stuff. Fiber LAN = requires PCI-X? How would you get that much of a transfer rate through PCI? PCI-X 266? :p
 
The main point of a RAM drive isn't STR, it's minimal latency. A RAID array of disks can match a RAM drive on STR, but never beat it (assuming it isn't a complete POS) on access times.
 
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