Use the RAM as a Harddrive

webmaster · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject: Use the RAM as a Harddrive

What would you say if I told you that you can build an own harddrive of you old DDR memories, and that the harddrive would have an access time of less then 0.1 ms?

Gigabyte has made a PCI card that you connect to a 1.5GB/s S-ATA interface and build a harddrive with your old RAM memories. The site OCWorkbench has written a review of the product.

Read the whole article here.
(don't miss the link to the next page in the down-left corner)

Phate · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: Re: Use the RAM as a Harddrive

wow... thats awesome!

webmaster · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: Re: Use the RAM as a Harddrive

Yeah, I don't play games or something on my computer, just uses windows, notepad and photoshop. So I guess this would be perfect for me. It reduces the noise from the computer and from thoose tests it seems really fast. I just wonder how much faster windows will be.

And I guess I have to wait to buy one 4 gb for the system-disk is probably enough, but way to expensive at the moment. But I guess we will see many RAM-Discs in the neat future.

jhonbob3 · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 45

That's odd. I have too much stuff on my computer. OS 10 takes up a couple of gigs, not to mention all my programs. I did hear about an article though that Intel or someone was using flash memory to slash boot times. If you find the article that might be a good one.
-me

Phate · Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: Re: Use the RAM as a Harddrive

like he said in the first post, you would get speeds of .1 ms

that is fast enough...

jhonbob3 · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 45

Yeah I understand it would be fast but the thing I was talking about used flash memory and could be used with a big hard drive and such. Just 4 gigs (or even 16 gigs if you could get a card big enough) would be ridiculously expensive for not THAT much of a improvement. Yes it would be exponentially faster but unless you just copy copy copy data all day it wouldn't be a big deal. Just my thoughts.
It's defiantly cool but unless it's as fast as DDR ram and as cheap per gig as hard drives I don't see it being all that useful.
-me