Originally posted by: tinyabs
I saw in Quantum website few years ago that they offer SSD (Solid State Device). It is a bundle of RAM with a battery pack and sounds alot like a persistent RAM disk.
I have a silly idea. Since SDRAM are dirt cheap nowadays, why not make a board with 32 ram slots and you can fill it with rams. Pure 133Mb per sec and upgrade at will. 32x256mb=8Gb. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, something like this will emerge with some technology like protein or crystal memory.
Often wondered why we don't see more of these kinds of devices being built, even for the enthusiast market.
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Crucial.com PC2700: 512MB PC2700 x 10 = 5GB of ram-drive for $760 (+S/H).
Throw in a Chipset (custom design, $50 each for small volume) to negotiate logic of data requests and you've got yourself a nice (and small) uber fast data peddler.
Scale to generate your product family in 1GB increments ($150 for $1GB ramdisk that works RIGHT in WinXX, I'll buy one). This is your "IDE" family, cheap technology but lower performance limited by 32bit/33MHz PCI. Also, as a business, you would artificially limit the bandwidth of your PC2700 chips at 133MB/sec to gain market segmentation and to keep businesses from buying the cheaper devices and "overclocking".
For your top 1% enthusiast market and server/workstation arena (i.e. 66MHz/64bit crowd) offer the same hardware with "special bios" and call it your Enterprise edition. Let'er rip along at full PC2700, which the bus will limit to 533MB/sec. Not bad performance, charge a 1x premium for giving your customers advanced technology and 4x speed.
Gain rapid market penetration with help of excess media generated when you license bus technology to SiS, Via, etc. so that they can tap your "proprietary" ram-disk controller directly into north-bridge for full ram-disk speeds (taken down a notch or two for stability).
Ah, what is that I see in the sky? Why it looks like a pie...someday tinyabs, someday...
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