I finally bought a Gigabyte I-RAM with 4GB

[Nothinman]

A flash drive would be better than a normal hard disk, however I'm willing to bet that Windows won't let you put your pagefile on a flash drive because it's marked removable.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I use a Gigabyte Iram drive for work. I store the USPS postal databases on it so my software can encode addresses (check them against the postal services addresses to make sure they are real and mailable). Without the Iram drive and a regular SATA HD, I get to encode at around 25,000 and hour. With a USB drive it encodes at between 250,000 to 500,000 and hour. With my Iram drive it encodes at 5 to 7 million an hour. So for my use I can't do without it.

 

[tcsenter]

A flash drive would be better than a normal hard disk, however I'm willing to bet that Windows won't let you put your pagefile on a flash drive because it's marked removable.

I'm wondering how it would fare if the page file were on a different physical hard disk in its own partition (i.e. separate from the OS/system disk).

 

[kithylin]

An iram, even with memory on it, isn't going to get more than Sata-150 speeds, which is 17 - 30 MB/sec sustained read/write at best. a flash drive on USB can get up to 20 MB/sec sometimes, and both the iram and the flash drive have 0 -1 ms access time. It's no different, the i-ram is just incredibly expensive.

 

[Tsavo]

An iram, even with memory on it, isn't going to get more than Sata-150 speeds, which is 17 - 30 MB/sec sustained read/write at best. a flash drive on USB can get up to 20 MB/sec sometimes, and both the iram and the flash drive have 0 -1 ms access time. It's no different, the i-ram is just incredibly expensive.

wut

 

[Onceler]

An iram, even with memory on it, isn't going to get more than Sata-150 speeds, which is 17 - 30 MB/sec sustained read/write at best. a flash drive on USB can get up to 20 MB/sec sometimes, and both the iram and the flash drive have 0 -1 ms access time. It's no different, the i-ram is just incredibly expensive.

You do not know what you are talking about. I am getting 128MBps constant from my I-RAM and I suspect that that will double with two of them in RAID 0 on a SATA II controller.

 

[her209]

An iram, even with memory on it, isn't going to get more than Sata-150 speeds, which is 17 - 30 MB/sec sustained read/write at best. a flash drive on USB can get up to 20 MB/sec sometimes, and both the iram and the flash drive have 0 -1 ms access time. It's no different, the i-ram is just incredibly expensive.

SATA 1.5Gbps
SATA 3Gbps

 

[Onceler]

SATA 1.5Gbps
SATA 3Gbps

Thankyou her
USB2 gets 480Mbps real world throuhput is like 37MBps at most, SATA I is like 187MBps
I-RAM is much faster than any of my hard drives

 

[Denithor]

I use a Gigabyte Iram drive for work. I store the USPS postal databases on it so my software can encode addresses (check them against the postal services addresses to make sure they are real and mailable). Without the Iram drive and a regular SATA HD, I get to encode at around 25,000 and hour. With a USB drive it encodes at between 250,000 to 500,000 and hour. With my Iram drive it encodes at 5 to 7 million an hour. So for my use I can't do without it.

Curious - have you tried a ramdisk to see how many encodes an hour you can get? Seems like it should be even higher than the iRAM.

 

[Onceler]

I use a Gigabyte Iram drive for work. I store the USPS postal databases on it so my software can encode addresses (check them against the postal services addresses to make sure they are real and mailable). Without the Iram drive and a regular SATA HD, I get to encode at around 25,000 and hour. With a USB drive it encodes at between 250,000 to 500,000 and hour. With my Iram drive it encodes at 5 to 7 million an hour. So for my use I can't do without it.

Something doesn't look right here. 25000 on a SATA HD but 250000 on USB?

 

[Cattykit]

An iram, even with memory on it, isn't going to get more than Sata-150 speeds, which is 17 - 30 MB/sec sustained read/write at best. a flash drive on USB can get up to 20 MB/sec sometimes, and both the iram and the flash drive have 0 -1 ms access time. It's no different, the i-ram is just incredibly expensive.

That's about on par for a standard 7200 rpm sata-2 drive in raid-0, what were you expecting, 300+ from two drives? Each one alone would only score 50 MB/sec - 60 MB/sec.

kithylin, stop spreading false information. The only thing good about your post is that they're so off the bat, that it's very easy to catch how you're making non-sense. While your posts are very entertaining, those who don't know enough might just believe what you have to say.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Curious - have you tried a ramdisk to see how many encodes an hour you can get? Seems like it should be even higher than the iRAM.

That is the next test I will be doing. We are trying to see if we can eliminate the IRam due to their costs and size limitations. Will let you know how this turns out. BCC software is also testing these as we speak since they produce the actual encoding software.

"Onceler

Something doesn't look right here. 25000 on a SATA HD but 250000 on USB?"

Maybe a software/ram issue? I have seen it go up to 32,000 but not much more. The machines that are purchased for us (HP's) are very limited ram and cpu wise (E class dual cores). Don't know yet, I can only tell you the results of my test so far. And I've tested many many times.

With the new SSD drives it looks very promising though, but it is very hard to get money from my company just for testing purposes when it will affect only two or three computers at our plant.

 

[Denithor]

Check out the Acard ANS-9010 and ANS-9010B also. Much higher capacity than the IRam and the 9010 model features an internal raid0 setup that uses two SATA connections for higher bandwidth. And they feature a slot for a compact flash card for data backup and a battery to prevent data loss in case of power outage (which will wipe out a RAMdisk if your computer is not on a functional UPS).

http://www.acard.com.tw/english/fb0..._title=%20Solid State Drive&type1_idno=13

Reviewed:
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16255/1
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dcason6634/
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=935

Forum links:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=234368
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=229978

 

[lstratos]

IRAM was a good idea but too bad did not support higher capacity

Found these on pics, search for iRAM, iram was limit to sata 1.5, thats why when you raid 0 them, you dont get a bump.. in burst but thats about it..

IRAM is probably the fastest thing before SSD came out.