Will there be an iRAM 2?

[Stiganator]

You think they'll come out with an implementation that uses PCI Express, 4x or 8x slot.

Imagine saturating a 4 GB bus..... drool. The I/O and transfer would be off the charts. Especially if it added support for say 16 GB.

Anyone else want to dream with me?

I bet it would be trivial to rig up an extra battery to keep that puppy charged for like a week.

 

[Lonyo]

Psst, the iRAM uses SATA for transfer, not the PCI/PCIe bus, this allows it to act like a hard drive. It only uses a slot for power.
SATA-II suport would be what you want.

 

[Stiganator]

Hmm, but the SATA bus at least at the time it was initially released was tied to the PCI bus, so transitively I think it was the same thing. I think. Maybe.

Think there is a way to use the bandwidth of PCIe and just send a handle or "bridge" if you will to the SATA controller to recognize it as a HDD.

 

[T9D]

I-Ram 2 has already been announced. It's going to fit in a drive bay.

Edit: and hold 8 gigs

 

[Ayah]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Hmm, but the SATA bus at least at the time it was initially released was tied to the PCI bus, so transitively I think it was the same thing. I think. Maybe.

Think there is a way to use the bandwidth of PCIe and just send a handle or "bridge" if you will to the SATA controller to recognize it as a HDD.

Nope. It was an expensive option at the time, usually coming from an add-in chips as southbridges at the time didn't support it (often) natively.

 

[Ayah]

Originally posted by: tk109
I-Ram 2 has already been announced. It's going to fit in a drive bay.

Edit: and hold 8 gigs

IMO there should be:

An "PCI-E x4 card w/ proprietery connector" version
An SATA2 version

It should support DDR2-1066 and have enough battery life to support it for a couple of days.

 

[BirdDad]

I hear the Iram2 is going to still be SATA 1
What I want to know is that if I use 2 of these on a RAID0 SATA 3 will the combine have the bandwidth of SATA 1(1Gbps) or will it actually run at 3Gbps