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wpd7

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Yeah I know its not really a "Disk" storage system, but I really don't know where else to ask!

Anyhow, does anyone have any experience with these or its ilk:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208317

Planning on using it with a 2.5 -> 3.5 IDE adapter.

Ever since I used a machine with an i-RAM, I have been drooling over the possibility of a larger NAND drive. This looks like my chance. I just want to know if the speed will at least be similar to the i-RAM. Faster will be nice, but the i-RAM was insanely fast already!
 
wpd7 said:
Yeah I know its not really a "Disk" storage system, but I really don't know where else to ask!

Anyhow, does anyone have any experience with these or its ilk:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208317

Planning on using it with a 2.5 -> 3.5 IDE adapter.

Ever since I used a machine with an i-RAM, I have been drooling over the possibility of a larger NAND drive. This looks like my chance. I just want to know if the speed will at least be similar to the i-RAM. Faster will be nice, but the i-RAM was insanely fast already!
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Anand had a decent article on it and right now buying a SSD drive over a HDD for a desktop PC may be fun but definately not a wise choice. BTW, seek time is fast...read/write time are still the suck for the cheapest ones.
 
I don't really care about the write times as I will only be putting on a few games and windows on it.

That's why I'm looking into how the read/seek times are. I'll have a look at that article- how much of a penalty is the key here. If its on par with the i-RAM I used, then I'm happy with the expense.
 
Ouch - $13.44 per GB !! :eek: Would be neat to play with though.
 
Wow, just read the article...

I also saw their i-RAM review and benchmarks. The i-RAM is clearly superior even to the SSD/NAND drives of today... =(

Anyone know how/why a cobbled SSD fares better than the real thing? Maybe i-RAM 2 is coming out soon with DDR2 support and gobs of memory slots? I know I'm impressed with the i-RAM speeds versus a raptor when I had one, but the SSD they reviewed can't even beat out a raptor- its ridiculous.

I guess I should save the cash then. I've been drooling over the possibility of SSD since I got the i-RAM and outgrew it size wise.

Maybe I should just get a SATA RAID and RAID0 several i-RAMs. LOL :p
 
You could also do what I did. Run an Windows OS that will recognize beyond 4GB of RAM. Install gobs of RAM, then use qSoft Ramdisk to allocate a big chunk of the RAM as a high speed ram drive. Cannot boot from it though.... and it significantly slows down your shutdown and startup times since it has to back up and restore the data to a physical hard drive whenever you reboot. Does not bother me though as I only reboot this box maybe once a month.
 
Yeah, I did that before and didn't like it. Wasn't a large Ramdisk- was only 4GB, but still didn't like it.
 
There is a nifty idea or two that has been floating through my head as of late because of WHS.

1) WHS supports full mirror imaging of a drive that can be restored via a recovery CD. Therefore it should be possible then with a IRAM solution to basically run out of RAM ;) and have no HDD at all. Expensive...yes, cool...hell yes.

2) WHS supports full mirror imaging of a drive that can be restored via a recovery CD. Therefore, get a high speed CF card (ones that do 40 MB/s) and get a SATA to CD adaptor. This solution is ~$80. If the flash card dies...well, you have your image. Expensive...not really. Cool...yep, little power = little heat. :p
 
You dont need to wait for WHS- Ghost will do the same for you. That's what I used when I ran with the i-RAM.
 
Games and programs are too big to fit on a 4 or 8GB RAMdisk, and they cost so much per GB :S

Running a few Sandisk's SATA SSDs in raid0 would give you many more GB, and still pretty good speed.
They can do 67MB/s sustained read rate, and the access time is 0.11ms :)
The fastest SCSI disks do around 100MB/s and 3.5ms access time i think.
So lets say you make an raid0 array of 4 Sandisk 64GB SSDs, thats 256GB, 67MB/s x 4 = 268MB/s sustained read rate :D, and 0.11ms access time (maybe alittle longer depending on how fast the raid controller is).

Naugty naugty :)
 
Go with a software RAMdisk instead if you want speed. You'll be able to hit 2 GB/s (and that's bytes, not bits). It will essentially use up your RAM.
 
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