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raid the gigabyte iram?

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jetpig

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just an off the wall thought... is it possible to raid the gigabyte i-ram? get two of em or something and raid 0? raid 1 would be kinda stupid... but doubling the speed of an already INSANELY fast piece of equipment would be entertaining.
 
im sure you could, it just shows as a standard SATA drive to the controller. Throw 3-4 4GB irams together...make a good boot/gaming drive at least.
 
The problem is they don't support SMART, so higher-end raid controllers tend to drop them from the array right away. Since you're presumably just raid-0ing them, the onboard controller should do it, but using an Areca controller for better speed won't work.

 
Is that the only down side to the i-ram? I thought there was also something about it not having some type of error correction/prevention like a standard hdd?
 
It doesn't use ECC ram, if I recall. That means cosmic rays can come along and flip bits in your data and it won't get noticed. But don't worry - that only happens a few times a week :p

 
lawl @ cosmic rays. so it's possible with low end raid cards/onboard, but very unfeasable due to lack of error correction.
 
I still fail to picture why people would keep "important" data on an iRAM...

for anything else, have a backup of the data, create some md5 or SHA1 hashes (which should also be rather fast on an iRAM) and store these on a real hdd. Every night have an script that compares the hash of the current content to what you have on the HDD.. if it doesn't match recover from backup...
 
I have iRam in raid 0, it does not work good on nforce 2 mobos (weird errors, like windows update not working), but it is very fast, windows boot is 5-10sec, defrag is 20sec, and the system is very snappy, and by going 0, you would have enough room to hold a game or two....
 
an iram in raid 0 - wouldnt the PCI 133mb a second already be a bandwidth limitations on a single iram drive ?
 
MrGuvernment said:
an iram in raid 0 - wouldnt the PCI 133mb a second already be a bandwidth limitations on a single iram drive ?
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the iRam does not use the PCI bus for data transfers. All data is transferred through the SATA 150 connector and whatever SATA solution you choose to use with it.
 
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