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Is this for real?

Those are some pretty sick stats! :Q

I wouldn't trust it with critical data, but for HD-intensive tasks, it could be very beneficial!

Just wonder what the price is (didn't see it listed)...
 
looks kinda crap, probably limited by the PCI bus. I am sure you could get similar performance from SCSI raid which is probably cheaper too
 
worthless...

so u load up a program of two in RAM on that thing? and then what?....it runs fast....it runs fast if you have a heap of system memory too sicne it's all cached in your system RAM (which is faster than RAM running off the PCI bus)...

if u wanted something like that, buy a mobo that supports huge amounts of ram, then create a ramdrive and dump anything u wanted into it...personally i find ramdrive worthless now that the OS's caching capabilities are up to snuff...
 
It could be a decent add-on provided it dosn't cost all that much, which it most likely wont. It only transfers around 111mb's a sec wich is EXTREMELY slow when it comes to solid state memory.

I take back what I said, the board alone cost $399 :Q $$$$link$$$$$
 
I wouldn't mind having one. I could use it to download files then burn the, to CD without fragging up my hard drives.
 


<< PERFORMANCE SPECS
Access time: 0.6 µs.
I/Os per second: 100,000*.
Compliance: Full PCI 2.2.
Capacity: Up to 4 GB.
Burst data rate: 132 MB/s.
Sustained data rate: 80-100 MB/s.
100,000 single sector reads or writes per second, dependent on system overhead and operating system efficiency. >>



I don't know about you, but if I had a real disk-intensive program that thrashed my hard drive constantly, this would be THE thing to have. Did you notice the access time??? That's THOUSANDS of times faster access than your usual hard drive! No it's not terribly cheap, but if this is buisiness-related and you need stuff done FAST, that's 4GB of the fastest access you're gonna' get.

Specific RAM-based-drives (NOT RAMdrive!) like this have been around for years - you can get larger than 4GB as well, but this is actually a high-end consumer device, rather than specialized business which would be costing in the $thousands rather than ~$400+RAM.
 
Does it work the same way as ramdrives do in which you have to load up the programs every time you restart your machine(RAM doesn't store after shutdown)?
 


<< The main highlight is its External A/C power supply that retains data even when the host is powered down. >>

 
ah, zzz got it right on the nose...

the only advantage of the stinking poo is that it's non-volatile....quasi non-volatile anyway
 


<< ah, zzz got it right on the nose...

the only advantage of the stinking poo is that it's non-volatile....quasi non-volatile anyway >>



Well and that you don't have to mess around with OS based RAM disks. I could see a few applications where a thing like that is usefull, compiling for example.

IMO the price is pretty decent, but 4GB are not enough.

BTW, I think C't computer mag started testing PCI bus thruput with this thing. If anyone is interested, I'll look up the numbers.
 
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