Re: RAM Based Disk Drive?

On 10/31/06, Adam <adam@spatialsystems.org> wrote:
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> I recently saw a Hard Disk Drive that is really 4GB of RAM with and SATA
> 1.5Gb/s serial interface.  It's basically a hard disk drive that uses RAM.
> It also has a battery backup, so if you loose power, you don't loose your
> data.
>
> Has anyone tried using this, and if so was there a noticeable performance
> increase?

you are talking about the gigabyte i-ram.  in the database world, you
can achieve same thing (actually better) by sticking those ram sticks
directly on the motherboard assuming you are in a 64 bit environment
and the motherboard is decent.

the main advantage of the iram that i see is faster boot times (big
woop). call me when they have a version that does 256gb :-)

merlin