4GB Dual Channel or 8GB Single Channel

[Eagle Eye]

Released sometime before June 25, 2005[1], the i-RAM is a solid-state drive produced by Gigabyte which has four DIMM slots to allow PC DDR RAM to be used to store data.
It connects via a SATA port and is seen by the PC as a hard drive, and may therefore be booted from directly. However, the i-RAM is bottlenecked by the SATA interface, limiting bandwidth to a maximum sustained throughput of 150MB/sec. This speed limitation is offset by near instant access, with latency results of 0.1ms recorded.
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Released sometime before June 25, 2005[1], the i-RAM is a solid-state drive produced by Gigabyte which has four DIMM slots to allow PC DDR RAM to be used to store data.
It connects via a SATA port and is seen by the PC as a hard drive, and may therefore be booted from directly. However, the i-RAM is bottlenecked by the SATA interface, limiting bandwidth to a maximum sustained throughput of 150MB/sec. This speed limitation is offset by near instant access, with latency results of 0.1ms recorded.
DRAM however is volatile, so any loss of power will cause loss of data. The i-RAM is powered by plugging into a PCI slot, which powers it while the PC is plugged in (using standby power if the PC is off). It also has a 16 hour battery, which operates when the PC is unplugged or there is a power outage.
The i-RAM supports Unbuffered / Non-ECC DDR 200/266/333/400MHz RAM modules of different capacities (up to 1 GiB), speeds and brand for a maximum capacity of 4 GiB. Because of this, the i-RAM is very expensive per GB, but offers a silent storage method with higher responsiveness and performance than a traditional hard drive.wever is volatile, so any loss of power will cause loss of data. The i-RAM is powered by plugging into a PCI slot, which powers it while the PC is plugged in (using standby power if the PC is off). It also has a 16 hour battery, which operates when the PC is unplugged or there is a power outage.
The i-RAM supports Unbuffered / Non-ECC DDR 200/266/333/400MHz RAM modules of different capacities (up to 1 GiB), speeds and brand for a maximum capacity of 4 GiB. Because of this, the i-RAM is very expensive per GB, but offers a silent storage method with higher responsiveness and performance than a traditional hard drive.

i-RAM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Eldonko]

Long story short, it is a hard drive made from RAM that is nice and fast.

[DK2]

Is IRAM still alive? I was thinking of trying the re-designed DDR2 version at one time and then it disappeared from their web site.
I figured they killed the product.

[Eldonko]

I believe it is called GC-RAMDISK now, not sure what the deal with the DDR2 version is. Could have been scrapped because of solid state drives.

[MushkinGreg]

These
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[DK2]

Originally Posted by MushkinGreg

These
ACARD Products - IDE/SCSI/SATA RAID Storage Solutions

Oh man, that rocks! Doesn’t look quite available yet and no prices.
I’m going to keep eye out for it though. Nice CF card backup and restore feature!
Thanks.

[Eldonko]

I think HWC should review that thing, it is better than the giga version on paper anyway.

[MushkinGreg]

Originally Posted by DK2

Oh man, that rocks! Doesn’t look quite available yet and no prices.
I’m going to keep eye out for it though. Nice CF card backup and restore feature!
Thanks.

Was available a few days ago, showing a price too
But seems they went fast.

[Mr. Gruntsworthy]

lol! and here I thought it was just memory made by Apple! (iRam LOL)

[Eldonko]

Haha, didnt even think of that.

Originally Posted by Mr. Gruntsworthy

lol! and here I thought it was just memory made by Apple! (iRam LOL)

[cgbc]

Can't you create a ramdisk on Windows? Something like tmpfs on Linux at the very least? That seems like a much better (and cheaper) way to go ... unless of course you intend to put your OS on the disk.

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by cgbc

Can't you create a ramdisk on Windows? Something like tmpfs on Linux at the very least? That seems like a much better (and cheaper) way to go ... unless of course you intend to put your OS on the disk.

Yep. MCN Live has a switch to load onto a ramdisk, but that still requires you to go through the slow process during boot of getting it there from CD.

The idea behind iRam is that it's fast non-volitile memory to store your OS on for lightening fast boot times.