Anyway...
I really want to get one of these, but I just don't see it as a practical design. You really have to get two in a RAID just to have enough space to be useful, and 12GB would certainly be nice if you're actually wanting to put the OS and your main apps on there.
Personally, my main system is on a DFI Ultra-D board, which only has two PCI slots, and putting two of these big things in there would probably block my extra SATA connectors.
This is a great idea, but there has to be a better package for it. There's just no reason for it to use a PCI slot. They could make a 5.25" drive bay module that fit up to 16 DIMMs and only needed a molex connector to charge the battery instead of using up an actual slot. That would be nice.
I really want to get one of these, but I just don't see it as a practical design. You really have to get two in a RAID just to have enough space to be useful, and 12GB would certainly be nice if you're actually wanting to put the OS and your main apps on there.
Personally, my main system is on a DFI Ultra-D board, which only has two PCI slots, and putting two of these big things in there would probably block my extra SATA connectors.
This is a great idea, but there has to be a better package for it. There's just no reason for it to use a PCI slot. They could make a 5.25" drive bay module that fit up to 16 DIMMs and only needed a molex connector to charge the battery instead of using up an actual slot. That would be nice.
Thanks EOD! So there is a perceived improvement. That's all what I am after. I hate benchmarks which can tell you a lot of good stuff but then you can barely perceive the improvement. There's nothing like the real thing!
I think of it as a toy, it'll definitely help with my adobe swap files.. trying to figure out a way to put the third one in.. maybe take out my slot cooler or something.. but I dont see myself spending more money on ram..
Basically I'm waiting till am2 comes out, Ill upgrade to DDR2, ill sell off my old mobo & cpu and keep the ram for this. I invested heavily on ram last year when 1gb was like 180.. prob by summer end, 1gb will drop to 50 or lower.. haha i wish.. but I do have 2 video editing machines that I use so I plan to use 2 card per pc.
Basically I'm waiting till am2 comes out, Ill upgrade to DDR2, ill sell off my old mobo & cpu and keep the ram for this. I invested heavily on ram last year when 1gb was like 180.. prob by summer end, 1gb will drop to 50 or lower.. haha i wish.. but I do have 2 video editing machines that I use so I plan to use 2 card per pc.
I guess one way would be to install them into a spare PC and run the SATA cables into another system I have Sata cables at work that are 3-4 feet long, so it should work... not pretty though. The lack of spare PCI slots is definately a problem. I can't run the two I-Rams and my Audigy sound card at the same time in my AMD system 'cause the DFI-SLI motherboard only has 2 PCI card slots. I have an MSI NF4 Ultra arriving today 'cause I really would never use SLI anyways and it has 4 PCI slots.
You know, the new socket for the Athlon 64 X2s that supports DDR2 memory. Should provide a bit of a boost to the X2 (though probably not enough to best Conroe). There might even be enough memory bandwidth with dual channel DDR2 to support an X4 chip down the road, so it is probably worth waiting for.
Has anybody tried loading XP on this Dang thing. Man that me be quite a sight to see the boot times.
Anybody anybody?
Anybody anybody?
Kaido
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I just updated my RamDiskXP software to version 2.0. I've got 2gb on my laptop and I set aside 400 megs (399mb usable) as a ramdisk. I installed Adobe Reader 7...whoosh! It opens PDFs instantly! No more nasty wait times in Firefox. I'd forgotten how useful this software is 
Kaido
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Yeah, but it's not quite as good as Adobe's option. I used it for awhile, but then I started dealing with more PDF files, especially at work, and there is often missing information (a lot of engineering drawings converted to PDF would have info lost). I really liked it though!
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Seriously I dont know if those XP are stripped down or modify.. plain install, mine a8nsli never booted that fast.. even in raid 0 8 gb (2 iram)
even after adding all the drivers, i never saw 19 seconds..
even after adding all the drivers, i never saw 19 seconds..
re-read the article, disable system restore, thats probably what I was NOT doing...
I do use it as boot, shutdown much faster.. love the unit..
A full install of Windows XP Pro can easily fit on a 4GB i-RAM and even on a 2GB i-RAM, but you have to be careful not to install applications into the C:\Program Files directory and disable System Restore for the i-RAM drive among other precautions. Why would you ever want to install your OS on an i-RAM card? We came up with two possibilities:
I do use it as boot, shutdown much faster.. love the unit..
A full install of Windows XP Pro can easily fit on a 4GB i-RAM and even on a 2GB i-RAM, but you have to be careful not to install applications into the C:\Program Files directory and disable System Restore for the i-RAM drive among other precautions. Why would you ever want to install your OS on an i-RAM card? We came up with two possibilities:
Since this is on a SATA1.5 interface am I wrong to assume that 2 of these in RAID0 on a SATA3 would be twice as fast?I think that one on a 1.5 interface would completely fill it but my thinking is 2 on 3 would fill the 3 but be twice as fast as 1.5
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Also I think that this setup would be much faster than a quad SATA RAID0 hard drive setup even though the hard drives alltogether are much cheaper.
The Iram 2 is supposed to fit in a 5.25" bay but still has the SATA1.5 interface.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Also I think that this setup would be much faster than a quad SATA RAID0 hard drive setup even though the hard drives alltogether are much cheaper.
The Iram 2 is supposed to fit in a 5.25" bay but still has the SATA1.5 interface.
No one has these dang things in town yet. I wish some stores would carry them. Guess I'll have to order online.
And I really wish the people working at these stores would actually try to learn about new tech and keep up with what is happening in the industry. Not a single one of them even heard of an I-ram or had any idea what it was. It's kind of sad.
And I really wish the people working at these stores would actually try to learn about new tech and keep up with what is happening in the industry. Not a single one of them even heard of an I-ram or had any idea what it was. It's kind of sad.
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