Gigabyte I-RAM Storage Device

[Rob Williams]

HotHardware posted a review of the I-RAM, which is basically a card you shove in a PCI slot. The cool thing is though, that it acts as a hard drive, depending on how much ram you input into it.

So, if you had 4 * 1GB sticks, you could have an ultra fast 4GB HDD. I can see how this would be beneficial, but 4GB is *not* a lot of space. That would be a lot of money for so little available space.

What do you guys think?

 

[werty316]

Pretty neat Idea but I don't think 4GBs is enough.

 

[xstatic]

Pretty neat Idea but I don't think 4GBs is enough.

PCI slots are not used very often nowadays in computers. I know I got like 5 free PCI slots in my computer. Chaining together a number of these I-RAM units could give you a 20 gigabyte instant-access drive. There are many server applications where storing files on that instant-access drive would be useful.

 

[Rob Williams]

PCI slots are not used very often nowadays in computers. I know I got like 5 free PCI slots in my computer. Chaining together a number of these I-RAM units could give you a 20 gigabyte instant-access drive. There are many server applications where storing files on that instant-access drive would be useful.

If you had the money for 20 1GB sticks, the *cheapest ($60 each)* you could get that for is $1,200. That's a pretty expensive 20GB drive.

 

[Greg King]

They are cool and there are benched to back up the speeds but I am with Rob, 4GB is a bit limited for most bloated operating systems. Awesome concept though and I certainly wouldn;t turn one down if I ever were offered one.

 

[liqnit]

i think it is great for an OS or for PageFile .
a pagefile at the speed of Ram is great feature

 

[Fr00zen]

Does the storage space erase on this card when power is removed, or does it have a battery on the card to prevent lost of data when the power is turned off?

 

[werty316]

It has a battery that saves data.

 

[MaRm]

Hey, you know they sell cheap ram disk software, and it would be a lot more cost effective then buying an I-RAM.

 

[adabo24]

Hey, you know they sell cheap ram disk software, and it would be a lot more cost effective then buying an I-RAM.

Like Werty and Frozen said it has battery on the card, thus it would be better then a RAM disk program.

 

[MaRm]

If you had the money for 20 1GB sticks, the *cheapest ($60 each)* you could get that for is $1,200. That's a pretty expensive 20GB drive.

Insane to spend that much on it. Until the price comes down, I can not see anyone buying it.

 

[fullpicture]

Insane to spend that much on it. Until the price comes down, I can not see anyone buying it.

Businesses who run million-dollar servers might use it. One thousand dollars would be a drop in a bucket to such corporations.

 

[Rob Williams]

I'd personally love to see a server that costs a million dollars